Learning Outcome Four
When we first started doing peer reviews on paper one I was probably not the greatest help. I worried only on grammar and organization and that’s it. It was only later where I began to understand that there was so much more to look at. I began questioning everything they were writing. I always asked for more explanation and for more quotations. I looked beyond the sentence structure and went deeper into the ideas of what my classmates were trying to get across to the reader. I would try to force my peers to explain ideas and concepts, even be a little over dramatically at first to really help the reader understand it. While reading Cobey Johnson’s paper on Reconsidering the Lobster, he said this, “On average, if I were to ask random Americans walking down a street whether or not boiling a lobster seems to be a nonmoral decision, they most likely would disagree.” I ended up asking a single question that was very important to the rest of the essay and what a lot of the essay was about, “Then why do we still do it?” Forcing him to reflect on his already pre-existing ideas and this either helped him tune up his ideas or it lead to totally new ones.
