Using the three main categories of ideas, evidence, and organization, I was able to give helpful feed back on my peer’s essays. First, for the idea category, I suggested my peer strengthen her thesis statement. While she had a general main idea, it wasn’t as concise as a thesis should be. Second, for the evidence category, I suggested that my peer should use less of the text because it started to become more of a summary than actual evidence. Lastly, for the category of organization, I suggested that my peer make a new paragraph because she tried to fit two big ideas into one paragraph. I felt like separating these ideas into two paragraphs would help it flow better.

I felt that being able to focus on global edits rather than local edits really helped me to understand my peer’s thoughts. Instead of being invested in superficial writing errors like grammar, I was able to really get into the message of the essay. This allowed me to understand my peer’s main ideas and in turn give big picture feedback instead of smaller feedback that could probably be easily caught by a quick proofread.