Peer Review
In high school, we only started doing peer review my last year there. I used it on our college essays we worked on in class. I sent my paper to two people in my class, and they would give me feedback. Their feedback though was simply grammatical errors and just things I forgot to put in. It never actually benefited the actual writing itself. In college, correcting a grammar error wasn’t going to cut it. We were forced to go more into what the writer was talking about. We were also told to leave a final comment at the end of all our reviews. When I first started this, I was scared to be mean or say something wrong. My comments were just the things I liked most about their paper and not what they could improve to make it better. As shown below, the comment has almost zero skeptical feedback. It was very positive and nice.
End Comment for Maverick’s First Writing Project
After practicing with peer review, I learned that leaving feedback that isn’t always positive benefits the writer more. They can go back and see what could get me to be more engaged with what they are saying.As shown, my comment is more focused on things they could improve to make their essay better. It’s not sugar-coated. I was still very nice of course leaving positive feedback still saying what I liked a lot about their essay but also not being scared to be up front and say what they could do to improve.
End Comment for Jenny’s Joy Essay
The two comments I have listed below are what I would say, my best comments. When reading the writer’s essay, I felt very engaged in what they had to say. These comments helped the writer make the essay much stronger. Reading back, her revised essay made me honestly proud that my comments because it got them thinking and encouraged them to make such a strong paragraph. The comments were very direct and straightforward, which i feel made the writer easily see the fix they could make and also gave them a different point of view of their piece.
