Reviews

Overall, I thought the reviews were not much more helpful then the other styles of peer review we've used. They were different, but the people that review either are afraid to lay out what is wrong with the paper or don't know how to improve it. I believe it is that people are afraid to point out mistakes, or in other words, they don't want to hurt anyones feelings. Myself, I try to find errors and make a point to point them out, but when I'm not getting any feedback it's hard to want to give any advice. Perhaps in the upper English classes the students will be more willing to give helpful peer reviews, but this is not the case in our class. I'm unsure how to fix this problem. The peer reviews aren't working because the students are not committing to the exercise and this might be a problem that teachers cannot change. I would rather have essays reviewed by the writing center or the teacher from the get-go.