Learning Outcome 4
For paper 2 I had John in my peer review group and I chose his essay to focus on for some of my best peer review. I feel like when I am providing feedback I focus on the structure of the essay and the main points that I feel the writer would lose the most points. Such as implementing quotes and explaining them and putting their authors into conversation. I feel like a big thing we were also told in class and that constantly came up is putting our authors into conversations. Having our writing flow and the authors go along with each other like they are talking to each other. I feel like in my first peer review I was looking for a lot of grammar mistakes and correcting spelling and statements that didn’t sound correct to me. I realized later on that these are obviously important to point out and I still do, but there were bigger parts of writing. There were larger parts of the paper that if they were not correct would lose them more points. For example, in John’s paper, he had only put the authors into conversation once but in the rubric, it said to place the authors into conversation twice. He also did not implement his own opinion at the end of his paragraphs like we were supposed to, and he also did not include a thesis. If I didn’t mention these things he would have most likely had major points deducted. He also had some grammar and spelling errors and I made sure to include them too. John in his final paper had included more of his own opinion and implemented a whole second section talking about the authors and put them into a conversation for a second time like I told him to. He ended up receiving an extremely better grade than on his previous paper. Peer review is important and talking about major points that will make a difference in their grade is also important.