Tanner McDougal
Learning Outcome #4
Link to Showcase Writing Project Page With Peer Review PDF:
Analysis:
Over the course of this English class, I along with my peers have had to participate in peer review. Peer review is very important for progression and helps to point out where you and or others can improve upon their essays and writing. Early on in this semester, I had a little bit of peer review experience from High School. The entire class would hear someone’s essay and we would all have the chance to provide input on possible revisions. This helped me some, but mostly on only local concerns. A big takeaway that I have received from this class is my peer review development. I have learned how to help classmates with both local and global revisions where I also can provide insight on how to possibly correct the item of concern. When doing peer review, I try to make sure that everything that my peer is doing in terms of formatting is correct as well as integrating their ideas into the essay. I think that it helped a few of my peers a lot when I pointed them in the right direction on possible ways to structure their essays so that it is easier for the reader to understand what my peer was trying to say. One specific example of where I pointed a peer in the right direction was when I peer reviewed Rachel’s essay. In her first draft of her essay, Rachel tried to integrate three different sources all into the same paragraph. I found this to be a great thing to touch on in peer review because that could be very difficult for the reader to understand in one paragraph. I commented on how I believe that it was not the best idea to attempt to jam three examples from sources into the same paragraph. That is because to properly address each and keep them all in the same paragraph, the paragraph will be incredibly long, as well as very difficult for the reader to understand why Rachel was using these examples. I advised how a good thing to do may be to use two in a paragraph and explain those. Then she could add the third later on and compare it with the two previously described. That would make it much easier for the reader to understand where Rachel was taking her essay, along with helping her to create a more efficient structure to her essay.
