Blog Post #7 Chapter 9

Chapter 9 of the “Bedford Book of Genres” discusses Revising and Remixing Your Work which includes the covering of topics such as revision based on peer review as we'll as how feedback and your own observations guides the process of completing your work. I feel like this chapter was very helpful for all of the projects in this class since our projects are centered around how we make them better by revising those “shitty first drafts” which was even the idea that we started this class with. I think that it is really important to include “peer review” in your writing process because it can be very beneficial to hear how your work reads to someone who has not been thinking about it for as long as you have been. It is important to hear someone else’s feedback on how your work sounded to them and what kind of message they interpreted from it. This kind of review also encourages discussion which is an important factor for sparking new ideas about your work or considering different perspectives that need to be included or more careful about. Peer reviews can come from anyone, and the more the merrier in a sense. The more people you have looking at your ideas during your process the more you will be able to revise your work than if you were generating your own biased revisions over and over.