Benefits of peer review

Overall i believe that peer review is very beneficial. This is because most of the time we cannot see the errors that we have in our own papers, but our peers can easily pick them out. Peer review is also beneficial because everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses in writing, so with the help of a peer we can make turn writing weaknesses into strengths. I have realized that just after doing the first two peer review activities that i have been able to avoid mistakes that i have made. I also have been able to focus more on my weaknesses. I wouldn't say peer review is like watching the super bowl but it isn't that boring. It is worth the time that we take to help our peers out and to receive needed help from our peers. To make a successful peer review session i would make sure the reviewers knew what a paper needs to be a good paper and then I would have them right down 1. What they liked about the paper 2. what the author did well in his writing 3. what the reviewer believes that the author could do to make the paper better and 4. what the author needs to fix (grammar and spelling mistakes etc.). Finally once the peer review session starts instead of having once person say everything that they thought the writer did well I would have each reviewer take turns saying one good thing that they liked so that each reviewer could build off the other. Then i would do the same with what they need to improve. This is how i would organize a peer review session.