I find the peer review discussions in class very helpful, especially when I have good peer reviewers. When I do, I get a good understanding of the assignment's requirements. My peer reviewers are usually very helpful; however, there are other peer reviewers confuse me even more. But other than that, I think that it's really helpful because I get more ideas on what to write about in my essays. It helps me come up with new things to write about by looking at other people's essays and by the feed back of my peer reviewers. We spend a great amount of time peer reviewing which gives me a lot of time to go through my essay careful and fixing all types errors. I think that the questions we receive for peer editing are a bit helpful; although, they can be a bit repetitive. I believe I am a tough peer reviewer. When I review my paper, I write comments like "this is dumb" or other mean things, but the only reason why I say things like this is because it's my own paper, and I feel that I write many things that do not make sense. For other people I try not to be very mean; however, I do tell people that they need to reword sentences or come up with better ideas. I am very honest when it comes to telling someone that their paper doesn't make sense or that they need to keep working on it because doesn't have certain requirements, only because I am trying to help them. My weaknesses are that I may not be as clear as I am supposed to be in answering peer review questions and such.
My ideal peer review process would be having more than one or two person read my paper helpful so that I get more people's ideas. I think that the peer review should have a check list instead of having so many questions. Including some questions would be fine, but not so many. We are given the right amount of time for peer reviewing it gives me enough time for a person to read and review my essay and for me to review other people's essay.
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