Blog Post #5: Peer-Reviews

Peer-Reviewing is important for both the reviewer and the writer in similar and different ways. In the case of the reviewer, they learn by looking at the work of their fellow students to see any mistakes that they find and can then turn around to review they're own work in search of those mistakes. In the process even learning to look for those mistakes in their writing process. The writer being reviewed benefits by allowing a peer to look over the work and see it with fresh eyes. The feedback returned can be taken or rejected by the writer but those feedbacks that are returned can improve the writing if taken into account. Similarly the person allowing the peer review could write with the knowledge of being reviewed and may watch their writing more closely during the writing process even learning to catch the mistakes they would've previously missed without the knowledge that they may be reviewed. Another bonus of the peer-review is that even if the writer's work may not make complete sense to just a random person, a peer could be able to slightly have a better knowledge of how to understand the writer's writing because they're in a similar situation. They can then suggest ways that someone could change their writing to make sense to others.