My partner was Jenna, and we decided to use the peer review guidelines from the Social Media project because they aligned pretty well with what we wanted feedback on. We then left additional comments along with those with any extra ideas or thoughts we had upon reading the other person’s paper. I thought the review was helpful because I was able to receive a lot of comments about ways to fix my paper, such as changing evidence and clarifying my thesis statement. One area where I wish I had received a little more feedback is if my claims and ideas were concise enough. Reading through my paper, I realized my ideas are a bit scattered, but I was able to get help with this in my conference.

I thought that the peer-reviewing specific to MLA formatting was helpful because a second set of eyes to look over it made me more confident that I had done it correctly. I felt we were both able to give and receive feedback, and I made little changes based on this feedback. I had the same partner as the first peer-review which I think helped because she had already read through my essay once. I also looked over my paper and focused on wording issues. When I did this, I found unnecessary words I could take out as well as words that I needed to change.