Category: Peer Review

My peer review partner was Amy Crawford. We decided that we would use the peer review guidelines from the first learning styles project. Her comments were really helpful and made me realize that I need to expand more on my opinions about why consumers should have more control over their own data. She also advised that I should use some more quotes because I only had one in my first draft. After reading the comments I also realized that I need to work on my transitions between my paragraphs and expand more in my introduction and conclusion paragraphs. There is nothing really else that I wish I had more feedback on because she gave me feedback on everything and it was really helpful.

The targeted peer review that focused on MLA corrections and wording issues helped me a lot. I liked focusing just on MLA corrections because working with a partner and looking in the Seagull book helped me learn more about MLA rules and helped me fix my paper. I also like checking my paper for wording issues and focusing on the local revisions in class.

Before we had done projects 1 and 2 I feel as though I was not really sure how to peer review. In high school I did it a little bit, but we only were told to focus on local grammar and spelling revisions and nothing else. Using the peer review guide sheets on projects 1 and 2 have helped me so much when trying to figure out things I should be looking for to comment about. While doing the peer revision for project 2 I felt way more comfortable than when I did it for project one and I made some really good comments. I feel way more comfortable helping and giving suggestions about good global changes or just looking at the paper in a more global way. I am really happy with the results from learning this because I feel more confident in my ability to give good constructive criticism which is really important in everyday life.

I liked that we did a self review before the peer review because it helped me really look at my work and see it broken up in sections of the different topics that I wrote about. I have never really done a self review before and just relied on the comments of my peer reviews. Looking back on my work helped me have a better outlook on my peer review comments because I was already thinking of changing some of the same things that my peers suggested to me.

With the peer reviewing I liked having the structure to leave comments because sometimes I struggle with finding things to comment on. The structure for peer reviewing served as a good reminder on the things we are supposed to be commenting about.