How do I feel about peer reviews?

Hello everyone, I chose to talk a little about what my feelings are towards peer reviews. To me I really like the idea of peer reviews, because it gives me a chance to know what they think of my paper and they can give me good critical critisism. We get so involved in just the writing of the paper, that we sometimes miss some detailed areas of importance such as small things like punctuation or commas. I had a hard time coming up with a good solid thesis statement, so I asked someone to help me with it, and that helped alot, two heads are better than one. When we get down to just writing and putting all our thoughts down on paper, sometimes we just get away and write down whatever, but when someone else reads the paper, they will sometimes catch things like run on sentences or maybe where there should have been quotation marks around a statement. I found that sometimes reading the paper backwards helps to in order to catch mis-spelling and periods.

My experiences with peer reviews have always been helpful, I would rather have someone else read my paper to give me more ideas, or just point out my errors. To me though in order to give peer reviews to someone I feel like I am putting their paper down, so I try to be gentle, but for someone to give me some good critisism is always a good thing for myself. To me the way that I think of peer review is for a way of learning. Thank you for reading.