I personally find the peer review to be helpful just because i can listen to my peers critique my paper and ask questions about the certain things they do not know about. Just because it made sense to me does not mean that they can understand it. I realized this when i handed my first draft paper to each of them and they were like what does this have to do with literacy. this made me stop and think about exactly what i was trying to explain in the paper and it also helped me to realize i need to focus on certain things instead of jumping around while trying to explain just one point. I also feel that the peer review has personally helped me in understanding what exactly i am supposed to write about. At first thought i was gonna change my subject but when i stated to think about it i was just coming about what i was originally talking about in the wrong way. So after they left their comments on my paper and i spoke with some of them in class i decided to keep the original paper and take it from there. however theres only like one paragraph of the original paper that is left, due to my jumping around while trying to get to one certain point. Other than that i think that the constructive criticism has helped open my eyes to points i would not have seen from just me reading a paper. while doing peer reviews in class and reading over papers with other classmates i have learned to pay more attention to the way i write for example run on sentences. I use alot of run on sentences because i have not really had to write papers in such a long period of time that i just forgot about them. The review makes it a little easier for me to pick up on things.
