Megan Heller
What really surprised me about this text is the emphasis on how important feedback is to a paper, but not just any feedback, more constructive and productive feedback. It really put me in a teacher's point of view on reading drafts and reminds me that peer review. The strategies in the paper can really aid in the peer review process are to make comments as if you were talking to the person to their face, in which case you do not want to be too harsh or too hard to understand. In this way it makes it seem less nerve racking to the writer when they read the comments. Another strategy is to not be overly positive because that is not constructive and will not build a better paper. By doing this and understanding the context of which this paper was written, you, the reader, can better understand the stage at which this paper is in and what is it for. I have done peer review in the past, and for the most part it was not very helpful because the viewers were very vague towards my writing and whenever I commented on other people's papers I get a little too in-depth with the paper. I look forward to using these strategies in my next peer review, however.
What really surprised me about this text is the emphasis on how important feedback is to a paper, but not just any feedback, more constructive and productive feedback. It really put me in a teacher's point of view on reading drafts and reminds me that peer review. The strategies in the paper can really aid in the peer review process are to make comments as if you were talking to the person to their face, in which case you do not want to be too harsh or too hard to understand. In this way it makes it seem less nerve racking to the writer when they read the comments. Another strategy is to not be overly positive because that is not constructive and will not build a better paper. By doing this and understanding the context of which this paper was written, you, the reader, can better understand the stage at which this paper is in and what is it for. I have done peer review in the past, and for the most part it was not very helpful because the viewers were very vague towards my writing and whenever I commented on other people's papers I get a little too in-depth with the paper. I look forward to using these strategies in my next peer review, however.
Yes, I also agree that Really Responding encourages editors to provide more productive feedback rather than constructive. It will be beneficial to use the strategy of pretending to be editing the paper as if you were talking to them face to face. This way, people will probably be nicer and more positive and helpful.
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