Peer Review

I have in the past used peer review for other papers and other classes.  What I like about this form of editing is the feedback you gain from people who very well could be the audience you are writing for. The challenge this tool faces is the tendency people have to be nice and not say too much negative feedback.  While negativity is not always constructive, the feedback pinpointing your weaknesses in a paper can be.  With our process we had some good leading questions to follow when reviewing others works.  this helped me realize that I had forgotten to post about my name, and needed to explain why people may choose to use Second Life even though I do not.  If there was one other way the exercise could have benefited us, perhaps it would have been by asking each person where they see their Second Life this time next year.  This would lead to an interesting dialogue, and give us some good insight as to why or why not people might choose to experience this world.  When reading the work of my peers it was nice to see why other people may enjoy it.  Since I did not, I liked seeing the views of those who did.