Okay, now you are well on your way to being finished. You have your rough draft completed and all you need to do now is to perfect it. However, by now you are probably very tired of looking at it; you need a fresh set of eyes to review your work. This is where the peer review comes in. You will select another student in this school to go over your paper. Be sure to choose someone you find to be at your level of writing and yet someone you feel comfortable working with and taking criticism from.
This step is very important to the writing process since it is the time in which you get the value of another person's opinion with no consequences. When you write and turn your work in with no peer review you get the instructor's opinion, but by then it is often too late for it to do you much good. While it is true that your peers are not the ones who will ultimately grade you, they do know the same instructors you do, as well as the expectations of those instructors. Additionally, it is always good to get other's opinions, just as you do about that new skirt or pair of shoes you just bought.
Take this time to select two peer reviewers. Be sure to print the link below which includes instructions and a rubric for the reviewer.
Created by Gayle Taylor
Last Updated August 8, 2007