As expected most of the peer review comments were sentence level changes and spelling and grammar 'corrections'. Of course this meant that I had to spend a considerable amount of time correcting the corrections.
I was happy that we had an offline component to this since it helped telling each student where his/her paper needed more work. The students worked in their previously assigned peer groups and as I 'hawked' from group to group I found that with little guidance they were quickly moving towards questioning the logic, argument and thesis of the papers.
My experience with their first drafts was disappointing, to say the least. It seemed that all the good ideas and logical thought process that they had impressed me with in their first couple of weeks remained within the confines if our classroom, never making it to their papers. We had a lot of revision ahead of us.
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