Learning Outcome 4:Peer review was hard for me. If I got a paper that seemed better than mine, I had a hard time picking out things that could be revised. This was a big struggle at the beginning of the semester. A lot of the advice I gave my peers at first was around sentence-level errors, spelling, rewording, and punctuation. As the semester progressed my peer review got more in-depth. I gave suggestions like adding in specific detail that would help strengthen their point, changing the order of their paragraphs to help the paper flow better, elaborating more or less, and making sure a quote is explained well. An example of this is in my feedback later of the essay provided. I suggested that they introduced Julia Child’s flipping quote early on in the paragraph to help the reader grasp where they were going with their point. We would also talk a lot about the quotes that were used and how they help strengthen the essay in our peer review discussion as well as thesis statements. In our first few essays a lot of us would focus on the content of our essay and forget to develop the thesis statement. People would write their thesis statement and then develop their essay and they wouldn’t relate to each other at all. In my peer review I gave suggestions on how to strengthen it, and what to take away or add. I was able to demonstrate this learning outcome through my progression of peer review. I started off with simple local errors and then focused on the global errors more later in the semester.
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