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" Really Responding" by Richard Straub

Camilla Chavez 
1.  The article “Really Responding” by Richard Straub surprised me in several ways. This article provided readers with many new ways to peer review someone’s essay in a non-negative form. It also suggested to editors that when reviewing a peer’s essay to not point out all the negative aspects of the essay but instead to give back positive lengthy comments on the great ideas they possessed within the essay. This was very shocking because while growing up my professors would always encourage me to not be friendly when editing the paper but to be critical and point out the flaws.

2. I think that many of the strategies that were introduced to me throughout this article will be very beneficial when peer reviewing one of my classmate’s essays. The two that stuck out to me the most were to leave as many lengthy praise comments as criticism comments because it will make the writer feel more motivated towards their paper. Another strategy that stuck out to me was when editing a classmates paper one should not sound like a teacher or judge, they should sound in their comments as if they were talking to a friend and the editor should be supportive as well. 

3. Yes, I have done peer review before. I mostly had negative experiences with peer reviewing because my classmates would not really care about my paper, so they would just edit areas where I already knew I had committed a mistake or would make comments that had no correlation to what I was saying in my essay. 

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