Peer review

For me the peer review session on Monday went far better than I expected it to. I was a bit skeptical based on the performance of my English 1101 class. In that class most people who read my papers just told me that it was good. This time I actually got some productive feedback. I don't think I was that great last semester, or that bad this one, but I do think that I had better reviewers and I also think I benefited greatly from the question sheet that we worked off of. It might have been a bit demanding to find 3 good and 3 bad from both prospectives, given the amount of time and length of essays, but having a format to follow really seemed to help. I know it helped me analyze the papers I read. I was guilty of sometimes getting lost during review sessions without a guide, so I enjoyed the fact that I had something to give some order to the process. I think it might be better to have the guide as an optional thing. Some of the questions weren't really relevant to what I had to critique about. Other questions seemed to be a bit more like a reading quiz that a critique sheet (ie. The point of the essay question). Overall, I thought it went really well and hopefully I'll be able to use the criticism I got well and revise my own essay to a higher standard.