Peer Review

Peer review frequently has negative feedback but I believe that it can either go very well or be a complete disaster. I believe that peer review should enhance each others papers but does no always achieve that goal for a variety of reasons. In my experiences the biggest problem was the reader either did not want to be mean and really critique the paper or they just did not care, and did not put much effort into reading the paper. I believe that peer review is only helpful when the reviewer actually critiques the paper and gives the writer constructive criticism throughout the entire paper. When it comes to working in groups I prefer working with 3 to 4 people. I also like when the professor chooses the groups because normally the professor matches people based on their strengths and weaknesses. Peer review can really be great or awful and I just hope that for these upcoming projects that it all goes well.