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 What is peer review?      In textbook terms peer review is defined as the practice of analyzing somebody else's work in the same field to give feedback on their work. In much simpler terms I would define peer review as giving somebody else your work so they can review it and give you constructive feedback.  My experience with peer review...      All throughout high school I peer reviewed a lot. Personally, I never looked at the grammar side of things when peer reviewing. I would always look and see how I would make things better. Like for a story like what kind of material can you out in it to make it better or grab your attention. For a debate how could you make your argument stronger by understanding the other side and knowing how to counter an argument the other side might make. I would focus on if sources are used correctly and make since. The thing was that I would always give suggestions not concrete changes. ultimately peer review is just ...

 What did I Think Genre Meant?       Throughout my life I always thought genre was just the basic area that a movie, book, video game or music would fall under. For example, Call of Duty would fall under a first-person shooter, war, action genre. Music had its own genre like country, hip hop, gospel and rock. books would have genres of fiction, and non-fiction. Then movies would have the genre of romance, comedy, action, drama and horror. Genre to me was always like a profile in which a text would go along with.  How Has my Definition of Genre Changed?     After talking about genre for the past couple weeks I don't think that my definition of genre in the past has changed, but it has grown. Now I understand there are a lot more factors that play into a genre and what makes a text a genre. I've also learned how the audience ties a text into a genre. A genre is not just a profile that a text corresponds to a genre is also the type of text created. F...