Final rewrite

 Hello, for todays blog I am going to be going over the experiences that I have had with the rewrites of my blog posts over this semester. Overall I have done 3 rewrites of random blogs in different weeks, while also doing 3 peer reviews. In each of these rewrites and peer reviews I have always learned something new which I can use in future work.

First I will be discussing my peer review experience. Overall, I would say that the peer review process has been a very good learning experience as it was something that I haven't had past experience with. My experience with peer reviews was always from getting markings and gradings from my teachers in secondary school primarily pointing out what I did wrong rather than pointing out both what I did right and wrong so that I know what I'm good at and where I can focus on improving.

When I found out that we were doing peer reviews I wanted to try make my reviews straight forward and easy to follow with information detailing what was done right by the writer and also giving constructive criticism on what that they can do better next time for their rewrite.

When I received peer feedback on my past blog work I was happy with the reviews that I had been given. They highlighted on what my strong points were while also pointing out my weaker areas so that I can improve in my next blog posts and in my rewrites. When you look at your own work it is sometimes difficult to find where you need to improve on so getting different peoples opinions on my writing helped me out a lot in seeing other peoples perspectives when they read my blogs.

Now moving onto my experience with rewriting my blogs that I had received peer reviews on. After receiving my reviews I had to rewrite the blogs that they were reviewing in order to improve on the areas that I was advised to work on. When rewriting it became more clear why people criticised certain areas and techniques in my blogs and I could then put myself in other peoples shoes to see what I needed to do.

previous to this course I had a minimal amount of rewriting experience from secondary school and from a post leaving cert course but this process has helped me improve on those skills.

After the rewriting experience I can definitely say that my writing overall has improved from rewriting. I learned that by spacing out my paragraphs into smaller chunks it becomes much more easier to read. Another thing I learned was that there are much better ways of laying out my sourcing at the end of my blog. I learned that using the Harvard referencing format allows for my referencing to be easily found and verified as real and reputable.

At the end of both my peer review and rewriting I can say that I am pleased that I had taken part in it and think that students from all courses can benefit from these skills as they can come in handy in the future.