Peer review was something I did in highschool to help revise and edit papers before they were submitted. Peer editing was always something I did not enjoy as I felt like it was a burden and it was meaningless. My experience with it was not a good one because many of the corrections I got were all about grammar and punctuation, nothing in depth, making it hard to revise my essays with much detail and thought. Revising just the surface details of the essay was seen as easy and most revisions were on the surface so revisions could be done as quickly as possible. I also dreaded revisions because I too did not like having to rip apart someone’s writing as it was tedious and I did not want to hurt their feelings by telling them what they needed to fix. 

Peer review was not always bad, there were several highlights that did come about it. When reading other people’s writing, I always got ideas for my own writing and how I could improve my pieces with ideas from someone else. Also, by picking apart someone else’s writing, It helped me improve my writing by looking at revisions I made in someone else’s writing and how I could apply them to my own. Peer revisions are considered a two-way street because both partners need to make corrections on each other’s paper, and from there take those corrections and apply them to ultimately better their writing. If one partner does not complete the revisions, it does not work well as the other partner has no feedback to go and revise their writing with. Although it can be tedious and have many conflicts if not done properly, peer revisions can be beneficial to bettering one’s writing.