Learning Outcome 4

Learning Outcome 4

When reviewing my peers’ rough draft, I focused on giving feedback that would help strengthen their essay, grammar and organization. I prioritized reading their sentences and helping give suggestions that would make them more concise or avoid confusion. For example, I would point out that their point and sentence was strong but suggested breaking it into two to understand more clearly. I would try to add comments about keeping consistent, like when referring to an author. Earlier in the semester when I started peer review, I would hesitate to give specific revision comments and just keep it short with sentence structure and grammar. However I feel more comfortable now offering direct advice. In this peer review I tried helping where I felt sentences could be reworded or even where there were unnecessary phrases. I still correct grammar issues to keep my attention to detail and help my peers out. In my final comments I would try to avoid just surface level edits. In this specific peer review I encouraged the writer’s sources but tried to suggest reorganizing the discussion about addiction for more clarity. I always liked to balance my feedback by finding strengths in their essays and also areas for revision. Throughout the semester I made significant progress in giving my peers detailed and feedback for them to work off on instead of just suggestions. I felt more confident when learning about global revision and the effects on how it would help my peers. I can continue to improve by getting more specific during suggestions of reorganization or framing examples. I can also keep improving so that the writer can see different options for revisions. Overall my growth with peer review has shown me it is not just about fixing grammar errors and local revision but helping my peers think deeply about different points of their paper and find where I can include global revision.  

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