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.
Peer review has become an important part of my writing process. Back in high school we never really had peer review, and the writing was just on me, and I could never get anything written down. With the addition of peer review in college it helped me actually be able to place my ideas down on to the paper because I knew that I had to get my ideas down so that I was able to work with another peer. When I did peer review it helped me see other people’s work it allowed me to get ideas for my own writing and it allowed me to see what others were putting in their essays. It helped direct me into the structure of writing I was looking for. Peer review also helped with my revision process since someone else was reading it they would leave comments which I was able to go back to and pick out if I felt like I wanted to expand on the ideas or take them out. Peer review also allowed me to come up with new claims to add to my essay which become especially helpful when I had a brain fog and couldn’t come up with any other ideas. Further down is a few examples of Peer review that helped my writing and also furthered my understanding of the writing.
These comments left by Aleeya were in regard to my third essay. These two comments left an impression on me because I was able to elaborate more in my essay using these comments if I felt like it. In the end I didn’t really use these comments to make and edit, however as I was writing and felt like I was hitting a brain fog I would go back to these and think about where I could fit them into my essay which in turned helped me look deeper in other points in my essay where I was able to elaborate on.
This was a comment I had left on Aleeya’s third essay. I myself was struggling on addressing the distraction and division that was signaled in the third essay’s prompt. Being able to see how Aleeya incorporated the distraction, and division helped me with my own writing since it helped spark ideas of what I could address in my essay to address the whole prompt. Since I thought about how Aleeya connect sources to her writing it also helped me go back into the reading to also relate the connection to my own essay.
Before peer review, I had gone into detail about the relationship between my little brother and I and how it brought me joy. While I was drafting this paragraph I had stopped at the end because I didn’t really know what other direction to go in and had felt there was enough given.
After Peer review Aleeya had commented on it and suggested going a bit more depth about being in college and why I felt the joy more as I was away and further exploring the relation of it and tying it into the sorrowful experience I wrote about in my essay.
After looking over the comments from peer review and seeing that I felt like I was able to try to explore more on the loss of my brother and how it affected me and relate it to more a global scale, so it related to others even without siblings. I explored the relation between kids and the innocence they bring compared to adulthood where we lose are innocence causing us to struggle on seeing joy easily as children do.
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