Peer Review Reflection
When a person tries to review or change their own creations it can be difficult and often useless. When someone writes something, no matter how impersonal it is, they become attached and biased. Due to the lack of efficiency in correcting our own mistakes we turn to those closest to us to point our flaws, our peers. From my experience peer reviews are usually halfhearted comments about a paper you do not care about in order to complete an assignment. However, the peer review I received and gave for Project One was insightful and genuine. As a reader the assignment helped me discover new was to present an argument to my audience. It also helped me recognize the similar mistakes my peers and I made in our project one papers. An example of this
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As a student I was taught to compare myself to my peers via test scores, class rankings, and college acceptance. Although it was not included in the assignment sheet the comparison of my paper versus my peers’ papers was implied. I enjoyed comparing my strengths and weaknesses to my classmates’ strengths and weaknesses. Making comparison helped me to feel like I was on course, while seeing what I needed to improve to match the skill set of my classmates. Throughout the peer review I struggled to be completely honest. Naturally as academic peers students grade each only more harshly than teachers do. There is something about a glance of power that changes the nice girl next to you into a red ink Nazi. On the other hand because student either do not know each other or they know each other too well they will “go easy” on their classmates or friends. I struggled to find a good balance between being critical and being nice during the review. I wanted to be helpful, truthful, and reliable because like myself my peers would rely on my comments to guide their changes. I ultimately found a way to be honest and helpful with a compliment sandwich. I can use what I learned in this peer reviews to help me complete future peer reviews in this course. I can also use this in future reference while evaluating my peers in any situation, even outside writing
As a student I was taught to compare myself to my peers via test scores, class rankings, and college acceptance. Although it was not included in the assignment sheet the comparison of my paper versus my peers’ papers was implied. I enjoyed comparing my strengths and weaknesses to my classmates’ strengths and weaknesses. Making comparison helped me to feel like I was on course, while seeing what I needed to improve to match the skill set of my classmates. Throughout the peer review I struggled to be completely honest. Naturally as academic peers students grade each only more harshly than teachers do. There is something about a glance of power that changes the nice girl next to you into a red ink Nazi. On the other hand because student either do not know each other or they know each other too well they will “go easy” on their classmates or friends. I struggled to find a good balance between being critical and being nice during the review. I wanted to be helpful, truthful, and reliable because like myself my peers would rely on my comments to guide their changes. I ultimately found a way to be honest and helpful with a compliment sandwich. I can use what I learned in this peer reviews to help me complete future peer reviews in this course. I can also use this in future reference while evaluating my peers in any situation, even outside writing