Peer Review, Yo

This week, our blog post is about peer review and its place in our English class.

Peer review is very important!! This last Thursday in English, we partnered up with a classmate to participate in peer review. I believer peer review is very important because reading other students' papers allows you to see errors in your own writing and gives you ideas about what you could do better. I did my peer review with Nathan and his paper helped me a little bit with my own paper.

One thing that always drives me nuts; however, about peer review are the students that give nothing but positive comments about my paper. Honestly, if I wanted to be praised about my writing, I would just have my mother read my work. I value critique over praise because it helps me improve my paper. I know that I'm a good writer, what I don't know is how to improve my writing. No matter how awesome a piece of writing it, it can be improved upon! Unfortunately, the only real feedback I got from my peer reviewer was positive, so it was a bit frustrating. However, reading my piece aloud to him helped my see I needed to improve fluency, paragraph format, etc.

Not only is peer review important because evaluating student work helps you improve your own, it is also good to see where other people are at in their writing because we are all writing for the same audience, our professor who hands out our grades. I like to see how other people play up that audience because it helps me determine what I am doing right and what I need to improve in order to properly entertain my professor.