Helpful, or not helpful...that is the question.

We recently had peer conferencing for our books that we are writing in class. I thought that these peer conferences were extremely helpful because the peers that I conferenced with helped me with comma errors and any other grammatical errors they saw. I'm horrible with grammar so having someone to help me look out for these errors was very helpful to me.

While this was very helpful to me, it is not a common practice for me to allow other people to view my writing and correct it. I've learned by doing the peer conferencing in class, that I probably should allow people to look over my writing beforehand.

There are some pros and cons to using peer conferencing in the classroom. Some of the pros are that it is very helpful to have a new set of eyes read your work. It's also helpful to have someone look over your paper to check for grammatical and spelling errors. Doing peer conferencing can help you get a better grade and it can also make you see things that you might not have seen on your own. A couple of cons of peer conferencing in the classroom would be that some students don't like to share their work with others and peer conferencing forces them to. Another con would be that peer conferencing is a time for polite and helpful criticism and some people don't take criticism well.

All in all, I think that peer conferencing is a great way to help students with their writing. It's really helped me through the process of writing this book for class.