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.

Prompt: Create a fourth section of your statement titled Learning Outcome 4. Review your feedback on the chosen Marked First Draft of One Peer’s Paper, in addition to any guidance offered by your instructor. Revisit your early efforts at peer review to help you think (and write) about your development. Write about your peer review practice, making sure to explain how specific examples of your comments show your achievement of this learning outcome and any ongoing areas for growth (about 150-450 words).

Early on in the writing process, we discussed the appropriate way to critic and peer review a classmates paper. The first paper I corrected was Cassandra Kuplast’s “Soy You Have A Favorite Meal” essay. In this, my corrections were long, but limited. For instance, I reviewed her essay and the peer review comments that were in it and only found two comments from myself. For example, in her second paragraph of her first draft, I stated that, “This part seems like you copy and pasted the information from the article straight into your essay,” in the comments.  Although the comments went into detail about her writing technique and some suggestions about how to make the essay flow smoother, there was a lack of comments and information. To improve on my review and editing skills, I began diving deeper into what the writer was actually trying to push through in their work later on in other peer’s essays. This improved my editing skills because it gave them some basic understanding of how they can express their ideas from someone else’s perspective.