Peer Review

Really the only goal you can have when doing a peer review is to help a person by giving them comments to improve their paper, as they do the same for you. Peer reviews are only helpful if other people are taking them seriously. With a good peer review the author will see a different person’s opinion. This is helpful because when we are writing we tend to lose focus. When this happens we will write something that makes sense in our own minds but may not appear as clearly to another person. If someone were to review my paper I would rather they be a dick and comment on everything, rather than go through and check for spelling errors. To be honest I probably will not change everything that they say to, but I will look at each comment when going over my paper. Another important thing to consider when doing a peer review is the group. I think a group of three people works the best. This way you see multiple opinions and everything is not biased. There really is not a good way to select a group, as long as you receive helpful comments it makes no difference if we select them ourselves or leave it up to the teacher.