Best of Both

I think both of the reviews helped, but they both could have been better.  With the Op-Ed we were given a specific amount of time during on class period to read one person's paper.  This was good because we could focus on one person, but our time restraints hurt us.  Seeing that we only saw the paper we graded for about ten minutes, we weren't able to get into the details of the corrections we thought it needed.  On the other hand, with the RA reviews we were able to take them home and review them with a little more time.  This was good because we were able to generate more meaningful thoughts, but the fact that we had multiple papers to grade hurt the feedback.  During class when we shared our corrections there wasn't much time to go into detail with what we wanted to tell the writer.  Also because we had three papers to review the analysis wasn't as sufficient as it could have been.  If we combine the good from both of these processes and have one paper that we take home and grade and then talk about it in class, I think the review sessions will go much better.  We would have the best of both worlds.