Peer Review

Learning Outcome Four: Peer Review- Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.

This learning outcome is focused on the ability to critically read a peer’s project and make constructive suggestions for change, in addition to the ability to evaluate one’s own work and identify opportunities for specific improvement.  In the paragraphs that follow, I will describe my peer editing process using perspectives (ideas, claims) and the explanation of text’s relationship to them.  In addition to local editing with signal phrases and in text citations, I also followed the writer’s thesis to the conclusion.

Down below is a letter for peer review. Doing peer review allows not only the writer, but the reader to learn and expand their writing and reading knowledge. This letter is for the peer edits I gave.

Peer Review Letter:

Dear –

Just wanted to preface this by saying that the literary work you have fabricated was very well written. The topic and flow to different parts of the essay were overall very well done. Writing essays that are all related and not just restating the same thing over again can be very difficult, but you have managed to bring new aspects to the paper and elaborate further. What was very interesting was that we chose similar topics that had similar problems, yet approached them very differently. It allowed me to review my own work and learn a different perspective from yours. Overall the flow, grammar, delivery of the essay was very well done. It all goes back to the problem you wish to address, challenges that faces that problem, and eventually how there can be a solution.

Some revisions that could be made that were minor, that would possibly elevate the literary work even more would be just revising some sentences and either elaborating more or rewording them. This would make the overall delivery and point more concise. Many transitions were well developed, but there were a couple that were a little bit rocky, so just either adding a transition or revising one would make the flow of the paper even better than it was. Another would be just rewording some things slightly to make sure the main point you are trying to make comes across directly. Lastly, it would just be a technical issue by working on shortening quotes and only including a signal phrase for another literary work once, instead of stating it more than once. Overall, this was a great topic to choose, and the approach was very well thought out. Again, very nice work, it speaks to your writing abilities, attacking a problem that you can have a good personal connection to. Very well done.

Suggested Edits: Below are some of the edits that I suggested for the paper I peer-reviewed.

Suggestions Received: There were a few suggestions that I received from the person who edited my paper. Most of the suggestions were for mechanical issues and the flow of the paper. This included rewording, elaboration, clarification, and transitioning from one paragraph to the next. These suggestions are for the pure purpose of expanding my overall writing skills and applying deeper levels of thought and analysis when writing literary works. Down below are some of the suggestions I have received from the person who reviewed and made suggestions on my paper.