My efforts regarding reviewing my peers’ work has progressed throughout the semester. In the past, out of the four years of high school, I can recall having a peer review session less than a half a dozen times. These infrequent sessions, if any at all, consisted of basic proofreading of our peers’ work, correcting any spelling or grammar errors. Our peer review was very basic and limited to local revisions. Based on these practices, I had very little knowledge of peer review prior to this course, and therefore I had a lot of room for improvement.
With that being said I continued to make some local revisions yet really expanded upon the global revisions. As seen in my Marked First Draft of One Peer’s Page, all of my comments on the first page pertain to local revisions. These comments address local level concerns such as spelling corrections as seen by my first comment, as well as sentence structure corrections as seen by my third comment. Within the feedback letter at the end, I mention to continue to reread their work as they progress to make sure to fix any confusing sentences on the local level.
I have also made global revisions throughout my Marked First Draft of One Peer’s Page as well. As seen by the first comment at the top of the second page, I address a global concern about my peer’s use for rhetorical questions and the need to clearly outline their thoughts for the paragraph. Many of the rest of my global revisions I address are in the feedback letter at the end of the paper. Here I mention some global concerns such as working on the ideas and vision of the introduction paragraph. I also mention the broad sense of ideas my peer had throughout their work. With this, I have suggested to focus the direction of their body paragraphs more so on connecting to and supporting the thesis. This connects to another one of my suggestions of narrowing down the ideas within the body paragraphs to prevent jumping around from too many ideas and not going into enough detail.
Areas for ongoing growth regard reflecting upon my own work. Where I see my peers having trouble I can and should look in the mirror to question the work I produce. For example, when correcting a peer’s work regarding an idea such as the need to include a topic sentence, I now go back to my own work to make sure I myself have topic sentences for each paragraph. In turn, taking my peer’s comments and feedback will allow me to consider areas where my paper seems weak and does not make sense to an outside perspective other than my own.
