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Rachel Klahm
ENC2135
1/25/18
Really Responding

1. This text surprised me because it encouraged us as readers to really be critical. Not in a way which comes across as mean, but in a suggestive way. To comment and make suggestions but not to change their piece. As Straub says, "it's not yours, its the writers. Writers write and readers read."

2. These strategies will definitely be helpful with peer review. Two that stood out to me were to 
1) not rewrite sentences but instead make a suggestion on a different way it could be written. This stood out to me because I often find myself fixing peoples' sentences when they don't flow well or there are grammatical errors. Now I know to instead make a suggestion in the margin rather than editing their sentence for them. 
2) Try to make as many praises as you do criticisms. This stood out to me because often as peers we get comfortable with one or the other. We either get our papers back full of critiques or a simple, "Very good! Wouldn't change a thing!" I thought it was interesting that Straub encouraged the reader to try to find a balance.

3. Yes, I've done peer review in the past and my experience has been positive for the most part. I haven't had any bad experiences with it but I definitely could've been more critical and made more suggestions in the past instead of a simple praise and a few grammatical corrections.

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