Peer Reviews

Uh oh, peer reviews. A time to share how lousy you think someone has done on their research paper! No, not really. I'm with Genevieve, http://gcruz85-studentlife.blogspot.com/ , peer reviews are a great way to see where your writing can be improved. Everyone needs a healthy dose of constructive criticism now and again. I appreciate someone giving me constructive criticism on my research papers. It shows me where I need to improve where I may not have seen a possibility for improvement and where I did do alright and don't see it. Most of the time when I write, I do not gain the distance from it that I need to see it's weaknesses and strengths. This has always been so with any kind of writing for me. When writing fiction, it is suggested to put a piece of work away for a few weeks, or a month or so, to gain that distance needed to see room for improvement and see where it is actually good. Unfortunately, most of us don't have that luxury of time in our college courses because everything has a due date like yesterday, or so it seems, and we have families to take care of, jobs to do, housework calling... So this is where peer reviews become invaluable for anyone writing a research paper. You get that "distance" from your writing but through someone else's eyes. Peer reviews are great!

My first draft this time around was just sad and pathetic, I did not put the time I wanted to put into it. Whose idea was it to keep homework going through the holidays anyway???? They need to be horsewhipped I say! No, not really...well maybe just a little ;-).

PS...someone needs to give peer reviews to this site, the stinkin link embedding didn't work in the post! lol