Peer reviewing provides a chance for students to receive feedback from their peers on an essay they're in the middle of writing, and what elements of it they should improve. This allows students to gain a better sense of what needs work in their papers, along with how they can fix it. Having another student assist in the process of revising a paper can make a student feel more confident in their work and have an easier time improving aspects of it accordingly. At the same time, however, peer reviews can put students in a position where the person recommending changes and revisions may not be correctly doing so. This can lead to a paper's quality being possibly decreased due to unnecessary edits or negative alterations that ruin the structure, flow, or any other integral part of an essay. Not everyone knows how to go about identifying issues in academic writing, so students will likely have to use their own judgement if unsure about what a peer has recommended they do with their essay. Most of the time, a student should be doing this anyway in order to effectively apply a peer reviewer's advice to their paper and prevent themselves from lazily adding changes without thinking. All-in-all, the advantages and disadvantages that come with peer reviewing depend directly on the approach students take to utilizing this process for improving their academic writing.
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