Peer Response Reflection

My previous experiences with peer response have not been as beneficial to me as teachers and myself would hope. In my English 111 class, my professor required the class to do peer responses in class where we had to read your partners paper aloud to him or her and then discuss what you liked/did not like about their paper. This made me very uncomfortable and gave me very little time to give a justified response to someone else's paper, so most of the time I just told my partner that their paper was well written.
For the peer responses we did last week in class I found them to be much more beneficial in the sense that we were able to read another students draft "alone" and actually form an opinion and then fill out the peer response form alone. This gave me much more time to collect my thoughts and really find out what I enjoyed and disliked about the other student's paper. Because I had more time to think about my reaction to the paper I found that it was much easier telling the author how I felt about their paper. …show more content…
One of my responders really gave me some helpful advice on where my paper was lacking some information and how to better organize my paper, which I think will definitely incorporate throughout my paper. It was also quite evident that she had read through the article I wrote my paper on because throughout her response she was giving me examples of information I could incorporate into my paper. On the other hand, I felt that my second peer responder was harsher in the sense that she was critiquing my style of writing and trying rewrite my paper instead of giving me her opinion on my paper.
Overall, even though I was not satisfied with one of my peer responders editing, I still feel that this peer response experience was beneficial to myself and my writing