Blog Entry #15

April 5, 2010 saunderskatejnwp

What I Learned From The Peer Review Projects…

Doing the peer review projects helped me a lot both in writing in general and my specific paper and topic. In highschool when I did peer reviews, I always looked at grammar and spelling and all the little details. I learned to look beyond that and look at the paper as a whole. Although I am one of those people who finds it hard to not nit pick at a paper, I found the whole process more enjoyable by not doing that. It helped me a lot looking at the positive and negative responses on my own paper as well as writing them for others. Reading and commenting on other student’s work helped me find strengths and weaknesses in my own. I didn’t find the rubric as helpful as the personal comments. It was hard putting a number on things and I just felt like the comments gave a lot more insight in correcting and looking at the responses on my own paper. There were some things in my paper that I thought were weak and that I thought were strong and for the most part my reviewer agreed with me. This clarified alot and helped me focus on weak points in my paper during the revision process.