When peer reviewing I tend to focus on the global, big ideas rather than the local, sentence level and grammatical errors. I believe that getting the main idea of a paper organized and coherent is far more important than the easily fixable and detectable grammatical errors. I try and focus on the thesis of their paper and supporting arguments to make sure that they aren’t contradicting their own main idea and to make sure that it makes sense.
The comments I received on my paper were very helpful, after reading their responses I became well aware that my thesis statement needed to be clearer, I needed to definitively pick a side and I needed to support it more clearly. I noticed that my peers who commented on my paper had a similar process to myself, commenting on global, big ideas rather than the small stuff.
I’m glad your classmates offered some helpful feedback for your draft development. Nice work on explaining your peer review process!