Peer Review

The effectiveness of the peer review we do in class is decent. In these sessions, the reviewers of my papers have given me ways of how to fix my paper, what are the strengths of my paper and its weakness. I have gotten feedback on everything from my papers. These sessions have helped me see the mistakes I don't see when I do my own revision on my paper. Lastly, these sessions have made me see that no matter how good or bad you think your writing or draft is, there is always something that is good and something that needs help. The only way I see that the peer review we do in the class can be improve is by if we could have two reviewers for our people because everyone pay attention to different things.

My strengths as a peer reviewer is that I always can see what the writer of the paper I am looking over is trying to do in their paper. I can see another point of view that the writer can talk about in their paper if they want to. I can see the best way of organizing someone's paper and I can see the small mistakes that someone can make in their own paper that I sometimes can't see in my own paper. Also I can spot run-on and fragment sentences.

My weaknesses as a peer reviewer is sometimes I put too much into something, that I over-think what the writer is trying to show or say in their paper. Also sometimes I am not as tough as I should be when I review someone's paper and lastly, when I am reviewing a paper, I sometimes talk to the writer about random stuff and don't fully pay attention to the person's paper.

My ideal peer review process is that I write my paper first before any one looks over it. After I have written a first draft, I do my only edits and after I finish the errors that I have seen in my paper, then someone can look over it. At this point, I would like at least two people to review my paper because the more people who can look over my paper, the better my paper can be because everyone pays attention to different things. After I fix the mistakes the reviewers have spotted, we should have another peer review session with different people to see how better or worse our papers have become. This is my ideal peer review process.

With the review process we have used so far in our class, I do find it helpful to have a peer review session in the early stages of the writing process because then you have time to make sure the way you are going with the paper is correct and you don't have to worry about wasting more time on the essay by way of redoing the whole thing compare to just changing a few sentences, paragraphs or the way the paper is organized. I find it better to have small groups because then you don't have a lot of people of telling you stuff and you can allow your reviewer more time to look over your paper. Large groups are good when you are first starting the writing process because then you can see how everyone is perceiving the essay prompt. I feel the amount of time we spend on peer review session is decent, but I would like another day or two so that everyone can have another peer review session with another student because I feel the more eyes you have looking over your paper, the better your paper can be.