Peer reviewing is something I have experienced throughout high school with simple, five paragraph essays. However, at that time, we focused mainly on spelling and grammatical errors, or what we call “localized edits”. I was very good at picking up things like comma splices and misspelled words. That is why it was difficult for me to peer edit for the first time in college. I approached this new method by reading the essays I was editing almost as if I were reading a book. I was just obtaining information from the text instead of looking at each word, each comma, and each capitalized letter. This global editing technique did allow me to realize how beneficial it is to look at the bigger picture. Instead of run-on sentences, I began to notice things such as an unclear central claim or paragraph sequencing. I now feel as though all of the local editing I did in high school was unnecessary, especially if students were changing the content of their essay, which happened fairly often in the revision of drafts. I am excited to receive the copy of my own free draft back so that I am able to see my work from someone else’s point of view and revise it accordingly. Global editing is a much more efficient way of peer editing than any method I have tried in the past.