Peer Review Reflection

The peer review gave me a new perspective to my paper. My reviewing partner gave me a lot of insightful tips in toward word choice and syntax as well as picking up the slight typing errors. I enjoyed how my partner focused more on the flow of my essay, rather than the grammar, since grammar is easy to locate while revising, but it is harder to know if my essay makes sense when others read it since I know the full thought I am trying to convey. I disliked the extensive review question sheet though. While it contained good questions, I prefer to have a guiding list of questions available instead of being required to answer them. In my opinion, having to answer questions makes the review more about the questions than about giving constructive criticism to the essay that is being reviewed. It also increased the time I spent reviewing an essay because after reviewing the essay by itself with overarching themes of revision, I had to go back and find the parts in the essay that answered the questions.