Peer Reviewer Provide Meaningful Revision Of The
We will use
this discussion area read one another’s drafts-in-progress. Before you get
started, please read the assignment
for this unit’s essay, and note the amended due dates for this
unit’s activities on the Unit Overview.
This
unit’s Peer Review will
be focused on what composition researchers call “higher-order
concerns”–that is, rather than proofread each other’s papers, we will
respond to weightier issues, such as focus (your thesis), development (your arguments),
the rhetorical strategies you
use to communicate your perspective, and the organization of your essay.
It may seem
strange to begin revising and expanding your essay before you have even seen
your instructor’s feedback. In fact, this unit’s essay assignment
is meant to teach you that revision is not about “fixing”
errors or problems as much as it is about re-envisioning a piece of writing.
This unit, you will use the articles you located to re-envision and revise your
essay from last unit. You will use the feedback you receive in this thread to
determine and implement a revision plan. Please note that because of the
amended due date for posting in this thread, you might not yet have my thoughts
on your essay from last unit. Again, this is intentional. Too often, we get in
the habit of revising only based on a teacher’s commentary and not on our own
thoughts or the feedback of other peer readers.
Assessment: See the Grading and Assessment content
item under Course Information.
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NOTE ABOUT BALANCE: So that everyone benefits as much as possible from
this process, respond to an essay that has not been read yet or that has only
one response before adding a third response to another essay. An essay should
not have three responses if other essays posted in the thread have just one
response. It is, of course, possible for an essay to receive three or more
responses, but in fairness to everyone in the class, see that peer response is
distributed evenly when possible.
Peer Review Process
The process for
this unit’s peer review will be as follows:
Step
One: As early in the unit as possible, but definitely by Wednesday midnight CST, prepare your
draft-in-progress for Essay #3. This will require you to spend
Monday-Wednesday beginning to find articles and revising last unit’s
essay based on what you learn from research.
Step
Two: Attach your draft to your discussion post in .doc, .docx or .pdf by Wednesday midnight CST. In the body of your post,
give us a paragraph or so of context. Describe how you have revised last unit’s
essay so far and why. Additionally, tell us what kinds of feedback you are looking for (for
example, feedback on your thesis, a particular argument you make, your
introduction, the way that you have incorporated the new research material,
etc.). This will help your peer reviewer provide meaningful feedback.