Peer review reflection

Based on my partner Yuhua Jiang(Sherry)’s topic proposal and Annotated Bibliography, I did some works on reading and thinking about her topic. Since we’ve been discussed and read a lot of information about Native American’s culture and stories. There’s one sentence I saw from Sherry’s topic proposal which I think listed her main thesis she wanted to talk about in her final paper :“ I want to explore the current situation and the reason of native American children's bad behaviors and high level of academic fail.” By the way knowing her thesis, I tried to search more useful websites for her. I think those might be the things she interested in to have a look for her paper.

From the feedback I received from Sherry, I think she really spent time on my stuff. She actually gave me a lot of useful and interesting suggestions about how she thought about my paper and what kind of things she wanted to know more around my topic. She did good work from a reader’s lens to kindly tell me what kind of things or points I should be able to work on, which is making my paper better.

From this peer review exercise, I have been doing a lot of communication with my partner, in order to know how we think about each other’s paper and useful suggestions for making our papers better. Sometimes I think paper’s good or not is based on different people’s personal views’ different. The paper we wrote is just from the one lens to see the things, but peer review is doing a good job on making our works more active from mutli-lens. So the peer review exercise helped me a lot. Whatever I looked my partner’s work or the feedback I received are all the things I think pretty interesting and I’d love to do since our goals’ the same.

I was able to give Sherry my useful feedback I think. I looked up her works which I think she already done a good job on collecting information and stated her thesis to follow in her final paper. But I think peer review’s one of the best points is get to know partners’ suggestions about what they want to know more about your topic. As Sherry’s topic is about Native American education’s current situation, I thought some of my resources would be helpful for her to know more about Native American’s general civilization and culture, also those information are not just based on a specific part about Native Americans. Those sources are actually could be well used on any topic about Native American culture. Also I found several websites that are fantastic to working on and collecting stories from.

Yes, it did. The suggestions I received from Sherry are pretty easy to understand and most of those are widely developed in my paper. She tried to make suggestions detailed, which better to understand correctly. By the day I finished my thesis stated, I think there should be more things I wanted to add but no more directions on my mind. Sherry’s peer review as a good guide for me to know what things I wanted to explore more and create fully.

Thanks for the process I went with Sherry, and I actually got so much help from our works and feedbacks. I’d love to know other people’s suggestions and here is the chance for both of us doing better on our papers. After I wrote this peer review reflection, I think I’m going to keep touch with Sherry to see is there anything else we can give to each other.