Reflect on the peer-review process with you as the reviewer. How did it feel to read and critique someone else’s writing? What did you learn that you can apply to your own writing as you revise your final essay?
I always feel a sense of stress when reviewing someone else’s work. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but at the same time, I know for my work I love and appreciate when people help my writing be better.
I believe I may have had an international student’s paper and that was kind of hard to gauge because it isn’t the grammar or sentence structure that we’re used to, but I also can’t imagine how hard it would be to write a 2000 word essay in a non-native language. I hope I gave good advice to them.
It made me want to go back and reread my entire paper to make sure my grammar and sentence structure made sense, and that my ideas flowed. I think it’s easy to read your own paper and think it makes sense, when in reality there are fragments and ideas that don’t quite flow when a reader is reviewing it for the first time.
