Efficacy of Peer Revision in Process-oriented Writing

• 作者: 邓雪梅
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: PEER REVISION process-oriented WRITING
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（9X）
• 页码范围: 12-17
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: H319

摘要

Peer revision is a collaborative activity during which student writers can exchange drafts and make suggestions for improvement. It has been widely used at present in process-oriented writing instruction. In this paper, the researcher carried out an empirical study about the effects and efficacy of peer revision on a group of Chinese Juniors majoring in English. It was found that student writers focused specially on grammar and vocabulary in PE session and organization was the least attended to. PE was quite effective in improving the overall writing quality, as the participants did incorporate most of the revisions suggested by their peers. However, the influences of students’writing proficiencies and of the rhetorical modes of the writing tasks on the effects of PE were proved to be not very significant.