Peer Review Recap, Part 3
10 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
This peer review process was my favorite out of the three that we’ve done. It wasn’t my favorite in terms of the advice that I recieved, but the reviewing that I did for others. The students who reviewed my piece gave great advice on editing, but it was more fun for me to look at their project and see the things that they did. This project was the most interesting because it was not just writing. We had to create our own rules and include non-textual elements. Of course, my draft lacked some of that, but this peer review helped me get better ideas of what I could use in my own project.
In terms of the past peer reviews compared to this one, there are many similarities as to what my peers look for when they are reading my work. Many of the comments I’ve gotten include grammatical advice, but the most common thing that appears is the clarity of my work. In my first essay, it was difficult for some readers to pick out what my point was, and for my second one, it became a little more clearer. In this project, the only advice I received had to do with grammar. This shows me that from the beginning of this class, I have made progress through the help of my classmates. Reading their reviews, and also reading their work and other students work, I am able to compare my own writing to theirs and see what is good, and what needs to go. This has helped me tremendously, because now I can read over my work and decide if other readers would understand it. If I don’t think my work is good enough, I know where I need to edit and what I need to change.
Final summation: I am very thankful for peer review and all the classmates that I’ve worked with so far. Their ideas have helped my writing to progress.
