Peer Review

The peer review session worked fairly well for me this class. Last semester I found it to be ineffective and somewhat of a waste of time. However, this time I used the things that I learned from peer review last semester to help me revise my group's papers better. I used my knowledge of what works and what doesn't work in a paper to help me give good feedback on the papers I revised. I also found the feedback that I gave, helpful to use in my own paper. Switching positions from the writer to the audience gave me an idea of the things I should add to my paper in order to make it better.

However, I did feel that the time given to us to make corrections and also discuss them was insufficient. I felt myself rushing to get through the first paper I read in order to read the next one and give feedback on it also. I believe that I gave good feedback on the first paper I read but I didn't have much time to make many comments on the second paper. I feel that the paper that we filled out to help guide us in the revision process took up too much time and is not as vital as actually discussing the paper verbally. There were too many questions to answer on the paper and I spent my time trying to answer every single one of them and I ran out of time to discuss the papers as much as I had wanted to. In the future I would rather just make commments on the actual draft and maybe use a few of those questions on the worksheet as a guide to more specific feedback. But I feel that rushing to try to get all those questions answered is less effective. Overall, the peer review was helpful to me and I should see a difference in the quality of my paper now.