My freelance writing class features one of my favourite learning tools ever: peer editing! Nothing better than having people you don't know, people who quite possibly rape nuns for a living, people who have to ask you what a word in your paper means and confirm with you that you've spelt it properly, proofing your work. Now maybe 3 or 4 weeks into the course, when we've all learned the fundamentals of proof-reading and editing, this could be valuable. But peer editing the first assignment in the second hour of class seems a little irresponsible. My "editor" marked 4 mistakes on my letter that aren't mistakes in any universe, and her entire last paragraph was an unreadable mess of mis-used words. I'm supposed to take advice from someone in those circumstances? Inconceivable!