Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.
Peer reviewing was a new process for me when I entered English 110. In high school, I only looked for grammatical errors in one essay. At the beginning of the semester, the first time I peer reviewed a paper I made almost all local revisions such as comma suggestions or questioning MLA formatting concerns, which I learned in high school. Looking at my comments for my peer’s most recent essay about Big Data, I see all four categories present including ideas, evidence, organization, and local comments. The first comment I left is an example of an MLA formatting issue I addressed. Comments 5, 7, and 12 are examples of comments based on ideas; I focused my comments on my peer’s claims. I made suggestions if the claim was unclear or absent. Also, comment 8 addressed my peer’s main argument. While my peer made a clear statement about her main argument, the beginning of her introduction was off topic and confusing. I tried to make global suggestions on options to delete or add sections. I learned to include suggestions for global changes when peer reviewing this semester. In comments numbered 6 or 10, I asked questions that I thought could be a possibility to add to their paper. This can offer the availability to add another source and more evidence.
