Peer Review

Peer Review has took on a whole new different meaning to me in this past week. In high school, we did peer review, but we usually just correct the errors in our peers paper. Then we would tell them the good points made in their paper. This week I learned that peer review was just a actual peer review. It is when you review your peers paper and then responded as a reader. As it said in Responding--Really Responding--to Other Students' Writing the reader reads and the writer writes, so I didn't correct grammatical errors. I think this method best helps the writer. Especially when they are stuck, and need a little guidance. the comment feature in Word is very helpful. It allows the writer to see  exactly where corrections should be made, and also where a point needs t be clarified. I know for a fact it helped me. I was definitely confused, then when my peers gave me feedback it guided me in a good direction. My peers told me how they viewed my paper, which was helpful because my teacher would also be viewing my paper. If  my peers didn't understand the point that I was trying to make I knew my teacher wouldn't. I also started to read back over my paper aloud, that helped me fix a lot of errors on my own. Then by me comment on others papers it help me realize also what I needed to do in my own.