Mariah McCurry
a. The major thing that surprised me was that we as a reviewer are more suppose to give our opinion on how we felt about the writing over making corrections and rewrites. I suppose I always thought one should just fix any grammatical issues that are found within the writing and give your opinion on whether the writing sounded smooth or choppy. I was interested to see that responding is its own genre and with that comes certain guidelines to follow.
b. I believe the strategies in this text can be helpful because it gave great insight on how one can better themselves as peer reviewers and gives the reviews a starting point on what their goals should be while reading the paper. The first thing I noticed was that the reviewer should brainstorm with the author to help him/ her elaborate on their work or help come up with more ideas. The goal of that is to help the writer improve and encourage them to better their work. I think another strategy that is important is asking the writer questions within the comments. By asking the writer questions about specific points, the writer is given another chance to elaborate on their ideas and may happen to have an ah-ha moment and are encouraged to write more.
c. I have done peer reviews in almost all of my classes since third grade. The experiences were usually positive until the papers we were reviewing became lengthy and serious. I do not like peer reviews mostly because I feel like if i knew exactly how to fix another students paper exactly how the teacher wanted it, then i would not be a student in the class. Since I am a student still learning and I do not know how to make a perfect A+ paper, I do not like giving feedback because I worry that I'm not giving the best advice.
a. The major thing that surprised me was that we as a reviewer are more suppose to give our opinion on how we felt about the writing over making corrections and rewrites. I suppose I always thought one should just fix any grammatical issues that are found within the writing and give your opinion on whether the writing sounded smooth or choppy. I was interested to see that responding is its own genre and with that comes certain guidelines to follow.
b. I believe the strategies in this text can be helpful because it gave great insight on how one can better themselves as peer reviewers and gives the reviews a starting point on what their goals should be while reading the paper. The first thing I noticed was that the reviewer should brainstorm with the author to help him/ her elaborate on their work or help come up with more ideas. The goal of that is to help the writer improve and encourage them to better their work. I think another strategy that is important is asking the writer questions within the comments. By asking the writer questions about specific points, the writer is given another chance to elaborate on their ideas and may happen to have an ah-ha moment and are encouraged to write more.
c. I have done peer reviews in almost all of my classes since third grade. The experiences were usually positive until the papers we were reviewing became lengthy and serious. I do not like peer reviews mostly because I feel like if i knew exactly how to fix another students paper exactly how the teacher wanted it, then i would not be a student in the class. Since I am a student still learning and I do not know how to make a perfect A+ paper, I do not like giving feedback because I worry that I'm not giving the best advice.
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