Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.

Reflection and Evidence

After a semester of peer reviews, I feel I have greatly improved my local and global revision comments. While peer editing the first essay for ENG110, I found local revisions easier to make than the global ones. Local corrections felt “safer” and were more specific, so most of my comments were about grammar and punctuation. However, throughout the second and third papers for this class, I began to become more comfortable with making global revisions comments such as “elaborate here,” “this is vague,” and “what do you mean by this?” Annotating articles was a large part of how I learned to make global comments. Getting comfortable with responding to someone’s writing has made it easier to critique writing. Once I became comfortable with global revisions, I also began to see the importance of them. Global modifications allow the writer to see the essay the way their reader would know the piece; holes and all. This is not to say that local revisions are unnecessary; local modifications help smooth over the work and help improve the language for readers. My next step as an editor is to find a balance between global and local edits. With more practice, I will be able to edit any piece of writing effectively.