Reflection on PEER Review

So, in class, we had a peer review session. Most of my paper is a jumbled mess of unorganized and unfinished ideas and I was a little apprehensive about having someone edit my paper. That being said, I did hope that the people editing my paper would provide some guidance as to the arrangement and the format. The people doing the actual peer editing looked only at sentence structure, grammar and citations. While this is helpful in the revision process, I am not interested in doing a grammatical revision of my paper until I am closer to the finale. What I need to focus on now is the overall arrangement of my paper and getting everything on the page that needs to be there. I think the problem lies in the concept of peer review. Most people are unwilling to edit for anything more than grammar because they are afraid of upsetting their peers with suggestions of overall changes. I recognize the changes that I have to make to my paper and realize that most of the arrangement problems will not go away until I reach my limit of information dumping.