When I looked back on my first peer review my eyes were opened. It was astonishing to see how far we have come as a class since our first writing assignment. Since our first peer review, many things have changed. Peer reviews have become more intense and helpful as the semester has gone on. Peer reviews help me catch the mistakes in my papers that I cant see myself. It is helpful to have one and even sometimes two other sets of eyes looking through your paper giving you helpful feedback on main ideas and pointing out surface level/ MLA errors. Also, peer reviews have helped me notice things in my paper before I even bring it to class. When peers point out issues in my past papers I can make sure that I don’t make the same issues in future papers. this has helped me to make less surface-level errors and keep my main arguments clear so that when I get to class my peers can look more deeply at my paper and provide feedback that they might not get to do if there were too many other errors to fix. In turn, this has improved my writing and revision skill tremendously and has transformed the way that view the process of writing a paper.
