Review your feedback on the chosen Marked First Draft of One Peer’s Paper (peer review YOU offered), in addition to any guidance offered by your instructor (what have we prioritized when offering feedback?). Revisit your early efforts at peer review to help you think (and write) about your development. As your framing statement, write about your peer review practice, making sure to explain how specific examples (don’t just gesture—include specifics) of your comments show your achievement of this learning outcome and any ongoing areas for growth (about 250-500 words).
Looking back at the first draft of the semester, it’s clear that since I didn’t know how to do global revisions I just went all in on the local ones. Honestly, there’s more in the drafts that I didn’t talk about, so I must’ve held myself back for the sake of the author and grade. Thankfully, as I said in another learning objective, I believe I’ve gotten better at global revisions, or at least learned to limit the local ones in a way that makes it seem like I have more global ones. Now that I’m writing that out, it seems like a jerk move, but sometimes you have to make jerk moves. It’s a part of life and learning. The parts that really accentuate the global revision and my growth in it are the final statement/letter things at the end of our reviews. The one for the third essay wasn’t as good as it could have been, but there’s a clear difference in the feedback letters between the first and second essays. The very first peer review was short, maybe three sentences and had hardly any critique. The second review for the second essay, however, was much more informative and brought in recommendations that related more towards the content and finding better pieces of evidence in the articles. It’s pretty crazy, seeing such a drastic change in so little time, though I guess at that point we had been reviewing Consider the Lobster for a few months, plus the other readings like Pollan’s, Anderson’s, and the Can We Make Earth a Better Place… one which I cannot remember the full title of for the life of me.
