In ES1102, most of our reader response drafts are being reviewed by our peers and most of the essay drafts are reviewed by our tutor.
The peer and tutor feed backs are very helpful in improving my English writing skills. However, it seems that peer to peer feed backs are only helpful to a certain extent because most, if not all feed backs given by peers are not up the tutor's standard. When tasked to give a feed back to my peer, I feel that my English writing skills are still inadequate to be correcting another of my classmate's English. The feed back given by me may be inaccurate and may even point out mistakes that are in fact, correct. There are two things that I can take away from the peer to peer review. One is that it forces me to think critically and spot any grammatical errors that my peers may have. This will allow myself to improve my writing skills as it raises my awareness of grammatical errors and other errors the sentence may have. Another point is that it actually gives the tutor more time to review our essays and give even higher quality feed back for our essay drafts.
In conclusion, I think this system of peer and tutor review is good in a sense it efficiently allocate the resources (time) in class. This is a good system and it should continue in ES1102 for the years to come.
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