Response to Peter O'Connor's chapter post

Like you, I had never previously thought that the order in which I gave feedback to a peer review really mattered. In the past when I've been required to provide feedback to peer review, I've always known that you want to give some good points along with the bad. I think though, I always had it in my mind, that the point of a review is to fix the problems. But it is definitely more then that, you also want to reinforce the positive so that the writer knows what they do well, as well as what they could improve on.