- What global comments/suggestions did you find the best from your peers? Why?
When looking over all of the comments made on my essay, I found that there was one similar mistake that each person commented on. It was the fact that I could keep my sentences less complex and still get my point across. I needed to work on making my sentences shorter which in result allowed my essay to be less choppy and a lot easier to read and understand.
- What were the best global comments/suggestions you offered your peers? Why?
One comment I felt myself giving a lot what the fact that it was important to revisit your thesis at the end of a paragraph. It is helpful to a reader to bring the claim you are trying to make back up and allows you to flow into other paragraphs and stay on topic. Another thing I notice a lot was making sure the sentences made sense and that there wasn’t too much repetition not only in the word choice but in the thought process too. I feel like this occurred a lot where a thought or idea was mentioned earlier in the paragraph and restated later on, just in a different wording.
- What important feedback/discussion points weren’t captured on the page that came up during your discussion? Be specific and reference your peers and their papers. You may benefit from looking back over the essays you peer reviewed.
One thing that came up in my discussion was introducing and exiting a quote. This is very important and I’m glad that it was brought up and that I had a chance to look back and make sure I didn’t just throw a quote in where it wasn’t needed. Not only does this help the flow of my writing but it also allows me to give a background as to why this quote is important and then state why I think it is important after inserting it.
- What did you wish had come up looking back over your peer review comments?
I truly thought all the comments I received were very helpful and I feel as though my paper really improved because of them. One thing that I wish came up was the use of different synonyms, so I wasn’t reusing some words that came up a lot throughout my piece. I noticed that I used the word importance, meals, and reward a lot. After rereading my paper outload to different people, I noticed this myself and made slight changes throughout.
- How does this kind of peer review compare to peer review from high school?
In high school peer reviews didn’t really exist. It was more of writing a first draft, re reading it to yourself, going over a concept that may help your writing, and making minimal grammatical fixes to produce a finalized draft. To me, this was very helpful having multiple people review my piece and give me different standpoints of their ideas.
