Peer Review at a Glance

With the past few weeks being very stressful, I have tried my best to give my group members the best possible reviews.  I used what I learned in the article assigned for us to read to give comments that helped my peers achieve all of what they were capable of.  I personally think that the focus on peer reviews has helped me write my paper.  I now read over my paper multiple times before turning it in and I focus on finding places in my paper that make it more appealing to the reader.  In the past few weeks we have focused on writing a paper that was stimulating for the reader and catered to his/her reading styles.  With my paper I gave more visual descriptions, more examples from memory, and reasons for the reader to stay interested.  I liked peer review because I never really knew what to write on another person’s paper to help them in the later drafts.  It was always something meaningless that had no way of changing their writing styles to better suit the paper.  Now that I know how to comment, I not only help my peer’s paper, but mine as well.  With this ability I have become more interested in writing and may not wait so long to write my next paper; because due to procrastination I almost did not get a chance to turn this one in.  It is easier to begin writing the paper sooner rather than later so you have the opportunity to edit before you turn it in.