I found that peer editing with wiki was more difficult when compared to google docs. My biggest complaint is how wiki saves the changes you made to the essays. When I was finished editing the first essay and went to save it, someone else was trying to save their changes also. (on the same essay) This caused overwriting of my changes, basically none of my changes were saved. It was a hassle to go back and reread (since there were changes I had to reread the essay) and re-edit. I also found it more difficult to type in comments in the essays. Since I wanted my commets to stick out I made them green, but the font color never stayed green. It would automatically change back to black once I clicked out of the text. It may not seem like such a big deal, but it took more time. My third complaint is that I only got two edits of my essay. I don't know if I can blaim that on wiki, but I think that we should have to edit certain student's essays so that everyone gets a handful of responses.
Although I do see the benefit in having both classes essay's available, I still prefer the google docs. I think a good word of advice to others using wiki for editing, or for myself the next time I do, is to look and see how many people have already edited the essay. That way if someone has a lot but others have non or barely any, you can edit that papers that need more attention.
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