Peer Review
My revisions have come a long way since high school. In high school I found myself revising papers in a way which just got the job done. The papers were not graded based on the revisions I wrote so I did not put a lot of effort into it. But now with the pressure of grading, my revisions have completely changed. Looking at Chloe’s most recent paper and my comments on it vs my comments on her first paper, my comments.
When looking at her ideas the first time, I was not specific enough. Though then as seen in her most recent paper that changed. I provided comments on her ideas such as providing more evidence to a certain statement as it seemed confusing. Adding to someones ideas for clarity is a step in the right direction to learn how to revise. This was the direct quote “I find this confusing, The quotation could use more information. Why did her paper go from a 98 to a 60? were they two different narratives?”. This is different as I would have in the past just missed the fact that the authors grade changed and just assume it would be explained later.
Next for evidence, within Chloe’s paper I offered a revision on a quote she stated where I felt like the quote should have been explained more and was left somewhat confusing. Before this year of English, I would not have had a problem with the unexplained quote and would have expected it to be explained later. “This quote confuses me, think it needs more introduction to explain exactly what Carpenter and Falbo were talking about”. This knew quote proves that I catch things I would not have earlier.
For the most recent paper, the organization was great. One important part of revision is recognizing and praising something done correctly. At the beginning, I thought revision was just negative. But college changed that point of view for me as seen in this comment. “This introduction is great, explains the story and the upcoming quotation very well”.
For Local comment, that is something I completely avoided earlier this year. I felt that I was not good enough at literacy and lacked the skills to claim there was poor punctuation. Though in Chloe’s paper I did not fix any particular punctuation issue, Issues with commas and semicolons are things which I know pick up on and comment on.
