After peer reviewing my classmates pictures, I had a better understanding of the importance of global editing first before local edits. Global edits are more beneficial because they allow the writer to look at their paper as a whole and make adjustments to make the structure and organization better. If local edits were made in this initial writing stage, the writer would be spending too much time on parts they may not even keep. I believe doing global edits first will help make the paper the best it can be and then polishing with local edits will make it complete.  I feel like now I would prefer to have global edits to my paper made first rather than local so I can focus on the bigger picture of my paper and make it so my audience can understand what point I am trying to get across.

However, I still found myself wanting to make grammatical comments or changes to the papers because they stood out so much to me. Sometimes I would have a sentence that didn’t make sense when I read it through but I knew the writers shouldn’t focus on those aspects of their papers right now. A lot of the grammar mistakes were capital letters in places they shouldn’t be or citation mistakes which can all be fixed and adjusted in the final proof read of the paper rather in the preliminary edits.