Peer review

The peer review that we have been doing in class is something I have never done before. In high school we were never really required to review someones paper and comment on it except when we helped someone edit their paper. But that pretty much only consisted of grammar correction and finding misspelled words. I never thought it was going to be as hard as it is. The concept seemed simple, just read your group members papers and comment on what you believe needs to be corrected in order for the writer to fix his paper. But it goes deeper that. As a person reviewing someones paper you want to give writer feedback on what they did wrong and what they did right. You don't just want to push the writer to improve their paper but to improve their skills as a writer. Thats something I struggled with. Im not a good writer so it is hard for me to comment on what is good and what is not and to push people to a level of writing that i'm not even at. But I see this as an opportunity to develop a skill that will help me and others down the road. I liked how we have been taking the time during class to review and give feedback on each of our group members papers. Especially when we read our paper out loud, it was really easy to catch the mistakes and hear how our papers sounded. The reviews that I have been getting for my paper are very helpful in ways to improve my paper. Peer review is something I like and want to continue doing during the semester.