Learning Outcome 4.

My peer review has been pretty consistent throughout the year. What I usually do is avoid nitpicking and let my peer do as they please to avoid the destruction of their artistic process. I will admit I am biased towards my own style of writing and encourage my peers to add more personal experience and thought, rather than telling them to adhere more to the menial common standards of critical writing. However, if they assert something without backing it up, I always tell them to find a credible source for the things they say. For example, in Taylor  Mara’s essay about beauty, she states that Psychology Today says that endorphins create a “feel good” mood in your body, but I would have liked more information about it and how it relates to beauty (because endorphins are usually related to exercise). My main goal for peer review is not to correct their method of writing, but to support it fully and help them convince whoever reviews it that his/her method is justified. Throughout the year, my strategy stayed the same, but my comments were more insightful and matured by the last paper. For this I used Taylor Mara’s essay on Beauty. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GL6c3OLmx59ZqGhv89DJWfea2nxEL8sXoBH7cUcsmkY/edit