Hey guys! I'm working on an essay for college that's themed around peer review, and I thought to myself, "Hey. I can do my own research" And what bigger pool of people do I have other than right here on WP! So I need your guys' help.

Do you find peer reviewing to be helpful? Why or why not?

More often than not I find it really isn't helpful. The reason for this being that Peers are working on the same stuff you are. They don't know more than you already know and unless it's a "how is this presented" or a "do you understand it" sort of thing? Useless. I've found they just nod along, say it looks good or whatever and then you do the same because like??? At that point, we're all in the same boat.

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That's my stand on it too, I've also found that I'm very advanced compaired to my peers (People my age) since I've been writing books and rping since I was little to I've learned quite alot.

Depends on what the peer review is for, maybe? Obviously, if they have more expertise in the subject than I do, I'm inclined to take their advice. You

I've had someone with a poor grasp of English critique something I wrote. Let's just say, I did not take their critique to heart; especially since they couldn't differentiate between the current narrative and a flashback.

Admittedly, a few times I did a peer review in class (this was some years ago, btw), all I got were copy-pasted articles they planned to use as source, so there wasn't much reviewing to begin with... Drove me nuts, because I do like seeing how people word certain things. It would help me so much with my own writing.