Peer Review


Peer review isn't something that is new to me but the way we do peer review in this English class is. Professor Wright emphasizes on how in depth our reviews need to be. We need to be clear about what we are asking to change or expand on when we comment on in the paper. Our goal should be to better our peer's writing with our reviews. The peer reviews that I am going to talk about are the Literacy Iquiry papers that we did earlier this semester. This was my first peer review this year so I was pretty nervous on what I should be commenting on and how to do so. After reading an article that was assigned us "Responding-Really Responding-to Other Students' Writing"it gave me an isight of what I needed to do in-order to successfully complete my peer reviews. Some of the stuff she mentioned was to be specific, not to be short and sweet but also not over criticize the paper because even though we are reviewing a paper it is not our own paper in which we tell the writer what to do with it. What writer of the article also did was give us examples of what not to do and how to respond to other students writings. What my steps consisted of when I was reviewing my groups Literacy Inquiry paper was primarily focusing on the context of the paper and making it flowed well with ideas and evidence. If the writer gives an example but doesn't really go in depth of why it relates to the subject or provides evidence then I ask the writer to expand more on his example and provide more evidence in order to have a successful paper. Then I looked for grammar and spelling mistakes. The reason I did that last was because it is the least important part of the review.