Blog 10 – Peer Review
February 28, 2009
I really thought the purpose behind peer review is extremely useful when revising rough drafts. Reading it to our peers while they followed along not only let the content be read but also expressed in the way the writer intended. I felt like our peer review went very well and everyone in the group equally contributed to helping each other’s paper. For next time, I feel there is room for personal improvement by reading through my paper more closely before coming to class to read it to my peers. I had a few grammatical errors that probably would have been caught if I would have taken a closer look. Luckily, I found them during peer review so they will be easy to fix.
Before turning my final draft in, I plan on revising my thesis statement. I want to make it more specific so it targets one particular narrative element instead of a broader spectrum. Currently, I talk about how Doctorow uses characterization, but in my revision I want to narrow it to characterization through perspectives. Also, I want to try to include one more solid example to support my case, or restructure my current examples to make my argument stronger.
