Peer review is a rocky road for me. It’s definitely one of my challenges and something that I need to work on, but like everything, it just takes time. For me, at my high school, we never did much with peer review. In my sophomore and junior I had the same English teacher and we rarely ever did any peer review, but those were also the only years I did do it. The couple times we did do it though we did it in a speed dating setting where we would rotate amongst our classmates and sit with each person for I believe 3-5 minutes and quickly talk about the assignment we were peer editing, making local revisions. Majority of the time though our papers were written as one draft and turned in as-is. So as you probably are able to gather, it was a new challenge for me to do peer editing, especially because the main focus was on global revisions. One peer review that I believe shows my achievement and of this learning outcome and ongoing areas for growth would be in the third group peer revision. For example, in my peer’s essay I commented “I wonder if instead of saying “getting back to…”, you could use a better transition back to the topic of kittens by reintroducing them and introduce the information for your new topic. For example, make a claim about what you want to say in this paragraph and make it a topic sentence.” I thought this global revision was a good representation of where I am at the moment with peer editing because although it may not be perfect I think I am on the right track to getting the hang of it and seeing as though it was my last peer review, it’s representing where I stand at the moment. Although I’m achieving the learning outcome, I still have a lot of room to grow.
