My first college-level peer review went great. It was different from what I experienced in high school because we had the whole class designated to peer review time. In high school you would just hand over your essay to another classmate whenever you finished and they would look at it for about 10 minutes and then you would pass it in. I felt it was a lot more successful than past times because during this peer review we were making suggestions on not just the bad, but also the good. In the past, when I was told to peer review I would just make edits and not actually think about the content I was actually reading.
When I got my paper back from the two other students that reviewed it, I wasn’t overwhelmed with tons of comments and edits on my paper. Instead, there were just 2-3 solid comments on each page that I felt I could actually focus on and those detailed comments were comments that could improve my writing. I noticed when I was peer reviewing it was hard to pick out the things I wanted to comment on. It was a lot easier making positive comments about their work than it was comments explaining what they could do better.
