How to Write a Peer Review

Video Transcript

"Hi I am Laura from YoungWritersWorkshops.com, and I am going to talk about how to write a peer review. Now a peer review is review of someone's performance or someone's work, and it is someone who is on your level, or a peer. So there are two different ways that you can approach writing a peer review. If there are already delineated categories for you to respond to, you can complete, usually there is a scale like average, good, excellent, something like that, and then an area where you can write comments. Be sure to include in your comments something really specific, like a specific example of what you are commenting on that will really help the person to see your point and to take that and run with it. Another type of peer review would be where you would have to come up with your own criteria, for example, organization, content, style, for some writing that you were going to review, do a review of. So in that situation, you want to choose your criteria to match whatever it is that you are reviewing, and something that is specific enough that you will be able to separate your comments into these categories. Next, review carefully what it is that you are going to give feedback on, and then again, give some really specific things that they could work on to improve, or specific things that were really excellent and that you would like to see more of. You want to also write some sort of summary of your feedback, summing up the points that you made in your review in a way that gives them something succinct to go back to. And those are some ideas about how to write a peer review."