English Importance of Community Discussion – Description
Purpose
The purpose of this workshop is to give you an opportunity to develop relationships with your peers, practice incorporating research from a variety of sources into your writing, and practice evaluating your own writing and the writing of others.
SKILLS
This workshop will help you practice the following skills:
articulate the role of peer review in the writing process;
apply best practices in peer review;
communicate substantive feedback to a peer;
KNOWLEDGE:
understand the importance of community in successful learning environments; and
evaluate the effectiveness of your own writing and the writing of others.
Task
Please post a copy of your Research Paper (regional issues) draft as a Word .doc or .docx attachment by Wednesday. After posting your draft, please respond to each of your group member’s papers with substantive feedback by Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
I have placed you into a group of three or four of your classmates.
At this point in your work on this assignment you should have completed the bulk of your research and have begun the drafting process. Wherever you are at in the process, you should post your draft in this forum and respond with substantive feedback to the other members of your group.
The objective here is to provide your peers some thoughtful feedback that they can use to improve their essays before the final draft workshop. Please do not simply provide thin, positive feedback. Try to point your peers to places in their writing where they could focus their attention during revision based on your experience having worked on the same assignment, as well as on your general knowledge as a reader.
PROCESS
Post a draft of your Research Paper by Wednesday.
Download the Peer Review Worksheet Download Peer Review Worksheet.
Download or view one group member’s paper.
Read the paper and complete the Peer Review Worksheet. You may also type notes into the paper if you would like.
Reply to your group member’s initial post and post an overview of your feedback based on your notes. Perhaps you would like to start a discussion about a particular aspect of the paper you read, so you might consider focusing on that and asking a question of the rest of the group. Attach the Peer Review Worksheet and the copy of your group member’s paper (if you made notes in the document).
Repeat for each member of your group (who posted a draft by Wednesday).
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