Keep in mind that the goal on revising your essays should be to make significant changes that affect the overall impact of your argument. You should not just be trying to fix comma problems and misspelled words. Though important, those usage problems make up only 20% of the writing process. Significant changes mean rewriting your thesis (assuming you have one), reorganizing your essay, adding new paragraphs to develop ideas (or deleting ones that get off track), and adding transitions and other aspects of effective style to help the flow of your writing. Although I have stated that a percentage change in your writing is somewhat arbitrary, it suggests the amount of effort that you have put into your revision. The goal I have set for everyone is a 15% change, which means you should have an originality report of 85% or less in Turnitin. Notice how the three reports below show how one person did a significant amount of change (hopefully for the best) whereas the other two did little at all.
The argument can always be made that your essay is as good as it gets, but you should be ready to defend why. Simply stating that your peer reviewers found no problems, so you did not know what to change, means you are not engaged in the writing process. You are being a passive writer/student and not systematically going through and looking for problems in 1) purpose, 2) organization, 3) development, 4) language, and 5) usage--all of the things addressed in the self-assessment and the peer reviews.
To get an overview of the rubric which I use to grade or assess you for the assignments, click on the rubric icon in Turnitin.
PS to the Procrastinators: If you missed the deadline for either
the essay or peer reviews, your should still submit a draft prior to the revision deadline to avoid missing MORE points (5% of your grade is based on revision--which is equal to half a letter grade)
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