Response to Jeff Schafer

You brought up a good point about peer reviews. Assigned peer reviews can be tricky because your fellow peers may not want to hurt you feelings. They may tend to say more positive things about your paper than actually critiquing it, which is worse in the long run. However, I feel that if my dad or a close friend critiqued my paper they would be more honest and know that I would take the constructive criticism. Your fellow students may also not be your target audience so it is best to find people who stay in the guidelines of your target reader.