Complimenting and Critiquing my peers’ text was a good lesson in how to look for what is strong and what is weak, even in my own writing. When i looked at what my peer had written, I was quickly able to see what parts of his first paragraph appealed to me, as well as the parts that could use some improvement. This is useful because writing is a recursive process, and by strengthening the strong parts and editing the weak parts, the overall quality of an essay can be improved. This can be applied not only to peers, but also to myself when I read my own writing.