In Class blog: peer reviews

In my past experience, peer reviewing of essays has not be the most productive thing. In high school when we did this we did actually look at each others essays and review them but it was mostly for grammar and other things. It seems that in my experience the peer review process is never what the teacher intends for it to be and students do not typically recieve any input that can actually help them to better format their essay for the purpose of the specific assignment. Additionally, being put into random groups with people and reading their essays seems to make some people uncomfortable. It doesn't make me uncomfortable it just feels like somewhat of a waste of time and has never been something I have looked forward to.  I am not opposed to the idea of peer reviewing essays but it just has not been the best exercise in my past experience.