Monday, February 18, 2013

Peer Review



There are definitely positives and negative with peer reviews. They can be very helpful with giving improvements for the final draft, but on the other hand some people might not care as much and not put as much effort into the peer review that others might. If the reviewers give good advice on things that will actually help build the overall paper, then I think peer reviews are great.
As a writer, I want the person who’s reviewing my paper to give me honest feedback and help me make an overall better paper. I want to have someone grade my paper that will give feedback that will be beneficial to the overall finished product of my paper. As a reviewer, I need the author to have a decent rough draft so I have something to work off of, and can give solid feedback. For group sizes I think about 3 per group is a good size. Therefore you can have more than one person’s opinion on your paper but it’s not too large and having too many opinions.
  As for length, I think it’s better to have us pick the groups so its people we know will give honest opinions and not a random person that we don’t know if they will have good or bad advice for our papers.  Overall, peer reviews can be very beneficial and help the quality of my finished product, but only if you know the reviewer will give honest feedback that will truly help your paper.

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