Editing (especially peer editing) is often atrocious and does little to help our student authors prepare their drafts for publishing. I try to avoid peer editing activities and instead, encourage students to share their doc/draft with two people (that are older and/or smarter than they are) to read their typed piece. These two people (hopefully adults) are asked to complete the checklist included here and make corrections to the grammar only! Editors don’t rewrite or change the ideas…editors onl