Erin Weidel

20 November 2023
Outcome Reflection 8: Reflecting on Peer Review
1. Usually when doing Peer Review, I have you all engage in both asynchronous and
synchronous communication with your peers to reap the benefits of both forms of
communication. What do you feel is different by only receiving asynchronous feedback
that affected your virtual peer review? How was your ability to “negotiate differences in
and act with intention on feedback from readers when drafting, revising, and editing their
writing” affected when doing this a different way?

- I think by only receiving asynchronous feedback opposed to both synchronous and

asynchronous feedback, we can’t receive as much feedback. This is because we are
only receiving feedback that is written, which doesn’t always reflect our emotions and
how we feel about something, but also because often when writing feedback, we ask
questions in a different way that we would speak and may come up with less
questions than in a conversation, as it takes longer to get feedback on most occasions
with asynchronous feedback. With the feedback I got, I asked less questions regarding
it as otherwise it would’ve taken too long to complete the review and would’ve taken
up more time than my peers wouldn’t have had. I had to focus more on specific
feedback rather than making general fixes from a variety of feedback that I didn’t
have.

2. Do you feel there are benefits to synchronous communication when it comes to Peer
Review?

- Yes, I do feel that there are benefits to synchronous communication when it comes to
Peer Review. I think this because with peer review, it is helpful to ask many questions
about someone else’s essay or about how you could improve your essay, and it helps
to show your true intention and emotions on the feedback you are given. With
asynchronous communication, this is often more difficult since all the feedback is in
words, and less questions can be asked due to the virtual communication that takes
longer to do.

3. Did you meet up with your group mates outside of class? Did you go to the Writing
Center? Did you get feedback from other people outside of myself, your peers, and the
writing center tutors? Or did you decide to stay with only digital/asynchronous feedback?

- My group decided to make a group chat at the beginning of the semester, and we used
this group chat to communicate for our peer review and ask questions to each other,
making our feedback only digital/asynchronous.