Peer Review Recap, Part 1

I must say... I'm not sure about this whole Google docs thing. Though it does make it infinitely more convenient, and doesn't create needless extra copies of secure documents, there's just something about editing a paper that I can hold in my hands with a red pen like the good ol' days. One, the fact that it's online poses the problem of losing focus and clicking over to another firefox tab to check my email, facebook or what have you. Two, we already addressed the fact that reading anything on the computer makes you skim over the surface of a text rather than giving it the deep reading and attention any document to be eddited deserves. Three, half the work is done for you because spell check and grammar check make it obvious where the writer has made mistakes even before they post it to be revised. That all being said, I'm sure that continuing to use Google docs will change my current opinion. I don't think everyone quite has the hang of it yet which caused me to get minimal comments on the my first essay. However, the comments that I did get were thoughful and did help in fine tuning my paper.