Peer Review Recap #2

For the most part this peer review was a success. I liked how easy it was to give direct feedback by starting a thread. In all honesty I found the suggestions made in this way far more helpful than reading through my paper looking for scattered comments. However, I didn't like the way that anyone could edit my piece and not necessarily leave their name. Sometimes people made changes which weren't helpful or didn't make sense, and I couldn't tell who made which changes.

Of the feedback I received, most were minor changes and criticism. Only one person really ripped my essay apart and I found this to be the most helpful. Merely suggesting organizational/grammatical changes is helpful, but the suggestions I received via threaded comments really helped me to understand how I could make my paper better.

I liked some parts of WetPaint better than Google Docs, and vice versa. As mentioned, I really liked the threaded comments. This helped me understand who was saying what and eliminated the general anonymity of the system. This was what I liked most about GoogleDocs: that only three people who were given permission could read/edit my paper.