Peer Review 2

Summary
Peer review is allowing someone of the same level as yourself examine and criticize or praise your work such as papers, ideas, projects, or research. in IUP's English 101 class peer review is used to help students by getting them a second opinion on projects and essays from someone with a different view. Peer reviewing helps students become better academic wrtiers and helps them improve their writing in general.

Rough Drafts
A Rough Draft is the writer's first attempt at a paper, or project. It comes after brainstorming and it could either be really good to the point that there is no need for a final draft. That is were peer reviewing comes in because you may think that your paper is great but one of your peers may be able to indetify something that you may have not noticed while you were writing.

Types of Peer Review
There are three different types of peer review, Single Blind, Double Blind, and Open Review.

Single Blind is where the reviewer's name is hidden from the wrtier. this tends to be the most used because it makes it easier for some people to criticize someones work if they are anonymous. 

Double Blind is when both the reviewer and the writer are anonymous this prevents any bias between the writer and the reviewer. In an

Open Review the writer and the revier are known by each other. Open review is the most common type of peer review used in English 101.

Criticism
The only way to become better at academic writing and for peer review to work is that the writer takes constructive criticism. Constructive criticism can be hard to take for some people because they don't want to be wrong or they like to have something done their way. Some people also just don't trust the criticism from there peers because they figure that their peers know as much as they do. That is were the  IUP Writing Center comes in. The Writing Center is a way for students to get assistance on papers and project from people who have studied English, grammar, and writing. So maybe if the writer doesn't trust their peers there is another place they can go to get a second opinion.

Final Paper
Now that the writer has gotten a second opinion they can begin to write the final draft of their paper and put those ideas and criticisms to work. The Writers paper will either improve or become worse depending how the take constructive criticism that was given to them.

Peer Review is a very important point in the writing process and can help the writer become better. In English 101 it is a very important step for a student who is looking to do well.

 References :  '''What is peer review? (n.d.). Retrieved March 07, 2016, from https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/what-is-peer-review '''