Prioritizing global edits over local edits was a very different process than I am used to. In high school, it seemed as though the local edits were the most important thing to pay attention to in first drafts. It seems more beneficial to pay attention to the big picture, as the first draft may change a lot compared to the final draft. Content is the driving factor for change in the first draft, so getting as much feedback as possible of the content and flow and thesis is crucial to writing a good formal draft. As it was talked about in class, it is hard for a writer to see how his or her own paper is turning out because he or she knows what the final image of the essay should look like, and this creates a bias of the current state of the essay. When I was looking over my peers’ essays, it was hard not to fix grammatical errors as I have been taught in the past to do, but I noticed that once I could think about global edits and prioritize them, I could see how the paper was structured better and could help my peer with what needed to be done.