While doing my peer review, I found it a lot harder to focus just on the global edits than I thought it would be. I didn’t realize how much spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes could bother me while reading over someone’s essay. I tried to overlook them and just focus on big global edits like organization, flow, and content but somehow I kept finding myself crossing out periods or commas, changing the spelling or capitalization of words, and thinking this wording is off. Nonetheless, I survived while still making global edits. I had never really been asked to make global edits before so to me this was a very new concept. I found I had to read through the draft a couple times to make sure the flow was right and the pieces of the argument were all falling into the right place. Each time I seemed to find another local error that I just couldn’t help but edit. I knew while I was fixing the weird comma or grammar mistake that the writer was probably going to edit it, chop it up and rewrite it and the edit I had just suggested them to make wouldn’t even be relevant but I just couldn’t help myself. In the future, I will definitely try way harder to focus solely on the global edits.
