Peer Review

Peer Review is beneficial for many reasons but is disliked for many reasons also. Peer review is a helpful way to have your paper critiqued in that having someone else reviews your paper is much more beneficial. This is because having a second reader can find many mistakes the writer will often time skip over. Much of this is due to that writers sometimes re-read their papers not so much by reading them but by rehearsing what they were thinking. Peer review is also beneficial in that you get a second perspective on how your paper is and you also get to see someone else's perspective on a paper. However difficulties are presented when doing a peer review. First you have to not be shy about your reading because you are going to be critiqued right to your face by a fellow student. This can create a level of inferiority by students, which can decrease their confidence in writing. Another difficulty with peer review is it often times can change your opinion to something you truly did not want to do, making your final paper not as well as it could have been.