My first experience of peer review at the college level was quite insightful due to the feedback I received and reading another peers’ writing to help improve their work as well as my own. However I did face some challenges that I can look to improve on next time around. I want to start with the positives, first of all I liked the feedback left on my writing. It helped me realize what I was missing and showed me areas where I needed to be more specific. For instance, in my piece I only mention source integration once and that was supposed to be one of the focal points of the writing assignment. My peer picked up on it and wrote a note to touch up more on source integration. I also found it beneficial to read my peers’ work, I thought their ability to relate to the reader was very strong. My peer had related previous experiences of annotating to their ability now. They mentioned how their ability has grown, how when they first started they too would just mark what they thought was interesting and how now they can use different types of annotations to deepen their understanding of the text.
Although college level peer review was extremely beneficial I did face one challenge. I struggled with offering feedback, I found it difficult to tailor my feedback to someone else’s writing. I know how I like to write, I know that sounds closed minded but it is what I am comfortable with. Looking forward to more peer reviews, I need to be more open minded and expand on my peers’ lens as well as my own. I think offering feedback through their point of view will help expand on their work in the same tone. While offering feedback through my point of view can help with what I think can be added on to the work.
