The peer review process is one that I learned to love over the weeks of this course. Being able to analyze other’s work and see where they might be succeeding or needing support in is a tool that I feel can influence your own writing. In this course specifically, the emphasis of our peer review sessions was global revision. This means focusing on the “big picture” of a piece, and addressing fundamental aspects like organization, thesis, and overall development. Reflecting on the first peer review session for project #1, much of the comments I had provided my peers were more local revisions focusing on sentence level errors. If I attempted global revision, it was very surface level advice. This was most likely due to “Grammarly” being programmed onto my computer and I felt that was the easiest way to complete the early review sessions. As seen in screenshot #1, all of feedback I had provided Franco on the first page of his essay was grammatical corrections. Nothing about the important aspects of a first page such as the thesis or first body topic sentence, just minor comments such as “comma” or spelling corrections. Comparing this peer review to one I had offered a peer for project #3, the comments were much different. Referring to screenshot #2, you can see that the feedback I had offered Katie was deeper, analytical thinking. I feel as though this snippet showcases my ability to critique others work by emphasizing global revision. I attempted to think “big picture” and utilize topics covered in class such as entering yourself into the conversation and utilizing hooks to introduce the paper. While not being overly critical, I attempted to instill the importance of including “I” statements into her analysis because that is something that was instilled in me by Professor Miller when we met to discuss my first paper. The feedback from my peers was instrumental in my revision process. The several sets of eyes looking over your paper eliminate both simple mistakes and offer different viewpoints on different areas of the essay. Focusing on screenshot #3, the closing comment from Katie’s review of my paper, she provided me with a mix of global and local revisions to focus on before submitting my final draft. These are comments that I valued deeply as they came from a peer who is knowledgeable in the topic and is reviewing with my best interest in mind. 

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