Peer Review Recap, Part 2
For our second Peer Review, we took a look at each other’s Ancient Style and Youtube video essays.
What I really liked about this peer review was the star system that Professor Krause required us to use. The reason I liked this system so much was because it gave me a guideline of things that I should be paying attention to. When we did our first peer review, I had a pretty good idea of the things that I should be looking for, but I didn’t have a clear description and I was worried that maybe I missed some things that could’ve really helped my partners. However, with the star system, I felt very confident looking for the things that I needed to find, and I hope that I did a good job critiquing their work. My partners did an excellent job leaving my feedback, and I feel like I can put together a much better paper because of it.
As an outside reader, I let my mom take a look at my essay. I asked her what things really made sense to her in my video, and what things could I do a better job explaining. She read my essay, and sent me her feedback via email. This is what she said:
Clearly describes different elements of literacy used in the commercial. Makes you examine more closely how messages are to be perceived. I liked the commercial you chose, but you could have talked more about it in your essay.
I think maybe because she is my mom she was being a little lenient, but she did make a few of the same points that some of my classmates did so clearly those things I need to work on. It was nice to have an outsider reader take a look at my essay, because it really showed me how well I was explaining the material. If she would’ve read it, and then said something like, “I had no idea what you were talking about,” I would’ve felt pretty bad because that means that I am not explaining myself enough and my essay isn’t clear. She did ask a lot of questions about ornaments and tropes, and things that you wouldn’t expect someone who isn’t an English Major to completely understand, but that’s to be expected.
