My Peer Review Experience

Overall, I believe that my peer review experience went really well. I went into the peer review being skeptical, and came out with more help than I came in with. I was clueless in writing this paper, but the peer review helped me formulate new ideas to the topic. Instead of trying any of the new methods, my group just did things the old-fashioned way; we read each others papers and told each other how we felt about it. One thing that I liked the most was that my paper was seen from two different points of view. This made it much easier for me to identify my audience for the next draft of the paper. I also liked the fact that I received an explanation when something did not work in my paper; I was not forced to assume why I made the mistakes I made in my paper. However, I felt that there were some things that could have made the peer review experience better than it was. For example, I felt that we spent more time reading than giving out feedback. I think that if we spent an even amount of time doing both, then we would have taken full advantage of the peer review. In short, I felt that the peer review helped me figure out which direction I want to go in this paper.