feedback

i personally love peer review! it is an opportunity to have your paper read by others who most likely have a writing style much different than your own, and naturally will find things to fix in your paper that you didn't think of. this is especially helpful for me because i tend to have long, wordy sentences that can turn a reader around. this poses a particular problem, because as we discussed in class, it is the writer's responsibility to present the reader with a clearly stated argument {which is not always my case}.
the only critique i have of peer review is that it sometimes seems to run a little long, but in some of the reviews we utilized every minute! so i think the structure of the reviews in class works well, and i don't think i would amend anything about it!
another wonderful component of peer review is the opportunity to read peers works, and see where they are at. as i mentioned earlier, almost always the writing style of a peer will vary from your own, this ensures a novel experience. The articles are presented to you in a way that is different from your first impression, and more layers are added to your original understanding. we also have the chance to recognize things in other papers that could be weaknesses in our own writing and gain a greater understanding of what effect that has on our own analyses.