Throughout the semester, I peer reviewed many of my peer’s writings/projects, and the more writings I review, the better I get at giving feedback. For example, in the very first paper I reviewed, I just didn’t grasp the whole idea of making suggestions; I kind of just complemented parts of the paper that I liked, and the parts that I gave real feedback to were all about local fixes, rather than focusing on and finding ways the author could improve, in general, and on a global scale.

As you can see, a large majority of the comments I make are on things that I like about the paper, as well as only really providing local revisions.

Since then, I have made sure to focus on giving more global feedback that is more useful than pointing out parts that I like. The paper I feel I provided the best feedback to was from project 3 (also the most recent one I reviewed). The reason why I was able to give such good feedback on this project was because it had the most room for improvement for both local and global. I’m not trying to say it was poorly written; the author had good, strong ideas, but the presentation of them wasn’t quite there.

These comments I made on the most recent peer review provide much better feedback than my first peer review. This time, I made sure to incorporate not just local revisions but global revisions too. Comments such as pointing out the need for the start of each paragraph to be indented, or the need for the writer to include actual quotes from the authors rather than just bringing up what they said and agreed or disagreed with.