Peer Review Assesment

After further examining my peer reviews and margin comments, as well as those peer reviews and margin comments others have left for me, I have noticed that the theme that continues to be seen is how the paper flows together. Transition from sentence to sentence or paragraph to paragraph seem to be more of an issue in my peers comments than grammar or spelling. This does not mean spelling and grammar do not need work, but rather that my peer reviewers and myself, at this point in the writing process, know that the focus of editing should be content based. I try to include more content based comments in my peer reviews as well as address areas that seem as if they would be confusing to the average reader. This, again, is a tactic that my peers have also used in reviewing my writing, even including suggestions on how the sentence could be reworded to make more sense or take out to clarify a point. I feel that after going through the peer review process with my group members only twice, I have began to see the areas of my writing that readers enjoy as well as areas of repeated concern. Also, in reading my peers papers, I believe I have somewhat taken on aspects of their writing styles that have consequently helped me as a writer. Having said this, the single most helpful step of any peer review or draft process, for me, has probably been the first step in which the writer reads his/her own paper aloud to the other members of the group. This helps tremendously, I think almost everyone I saw or heard read their paper aloud (myself included) found at least one place where he/she could identify a correction that needed to be made, before anyone else had the chance to identify it.