Ch 16 concept 16.4

Concept 16.4
This section of the book is on peer reviewing, a topic present in most every english class I've every taken but one that is almost never expounded upon. Only in brief spurts are we explained how to properly review someone else's paper and give them proper feedback to help them revise, nor are we taught how to use someones review to revise and better our work and our own skill. This chapter explains helpful positive ways of helping a peer improve their paper and proper responses to problems that could be found in a paper. They give a quick guide to peer reviewing, and it includes telling us how to do a basic overview, essentially finding the biggest global issue in the paper and addressing it, going into more depth and finding smaller global issues in the paper, and evaluating the writer's argument, basically delving into the soul of the paper and determining whether the base of the paper, the thesis or argument, is fitting, well made, or approached correctly in the paper. Only after all this is it ok to go after small grammar, spelling, and minor placement errors. LAstly they approach the responsibility of the peer reviewers, explaining how peer reviewing is so important on multiple levels, including the fact that focusing when peer reviewing can help you find mistakes in your own paper and writing and as you help your peer fix theirs you can learn how to fix your own.