Chapter 9 Revising Your Work- Taylor Wilhelmy

This chapter was all about the power of peer review when writing. This chapter showed that peer review can help enhance your writing. By having others read over your work, you may find that they catch on to mistakes that you may not have seen and they also may help you find areas that you may have struggled with, whether through lack or detail or, in some cases, too much detail that it doesn't make sense. I personally like the fact of peer review because I like having others read my work because sometimes, I just type what I feel and it doesn't make sense. On the other hand, sometimes I don't like peer review because, there are some papers that I really don't feel confident, and when my name is on it, I feel like people are judging me based on my writing. I don't mind when my paper doesn't have my name on it because no one knows who wrote it and they can't be biased in their response. I also like how there were questions that we could give to our reviewers. I have never thought about doing that in the past because we were always told to pass our paper up and then we were given a random one in return. I feel like implementing the questions into my peer reviews could give me a better peer review by giving them a direction to go when looking over the work because, sometimes, I feel lost as to what to say to someone. With questions, you just have to provide the answers to them and nothing else if you feel like that is enough.