peer review?

well i've done this once. i've been unprepared the other times. well last time i was prepared, but i was not prepared to be prepared, so i just didn't. i think going back to the last blog post, this is another thing i do that is a pattern of error. i write in a weird way, and i feel like only i can understand it, but that's the beauty of it!

ok anyway. with the peer review i witnessed last time, my fellow colleagues were told to read the essays aloud once, and then read them silently. i think this helps greatly because sometimes its hard to understand what a sentence is saying unless you actually say it out loud. i think that was a great addition to the peer review process. i also think peer review is helpful in the earlier stages of writing, and it's done best in small groups. in large groups, it'd be easy to miss out on something. when its just 2 people or 3 people reviewing each others essays, it seems much easier to actually connect with the writer, and its easier to provide feedback. it wont seem like one is repeating ones self either.

as a peer reviewer, i get too boring because i don't know what else to say. and i'm not so good at the whole "be brutally honest" part of this. i find it hard to be a critic on something belonging to someone i don't really know. like if i were reviewing an essay written by my dad or sister, i could be as honest as i want because...well i dont know. i'd just feel more comfortable like that. its probably the same reason i don't like others reading my writing. i'm not sure what to expect when the revision process is over.

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one thing i do a lot that i really shouldn't is that i constantly try to include my opinion in what ever i'm doing writing about. even if i'm not supposed to, i'm always biased. it's bad, and i'm sure i'm not the only one (my opinion, again. what am i even talking about? i know nothing!), but really. i just don't know how to change this though. i don't think i can. the only way i can be completely unbiased on something is if i don't know what it's about.

another thing is how i try to include like a ton of prepositional phrases and stuff, and pretty much anything i can to make my writing seem longer. for some reason, my brain decided that if i write a lot, the teacher won't read it all and will just give me a good grade. they'll be like "oh ok this first part is pretty cool, A+!!!" that's how it plays out in my head, in reality, it's more like "wow what is this. there's so much. doesn't follow rules...D-!!" *evil laughter*
aside from that, there's probably a lot more that i haven't caught on to yet, or am too tired to realize and be aware of right now.