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PEER REVIEWIn academic publishing, “Peer Review”

is often held to be the gold standard for determining quality.

Rather than a single editor or fact-checker, Peer Review relies on a variety of experts in a field to provide their criticism and suggestions on a paper or essay.

PEER REVIEWToday, you will use this same principle

to get helpful feedback on your drafts.

Believe it or not, you are EXPERTS in your field; you’ve been writing academic essays for most of your lives!

PEER REVIEWYou have likely done some form of

peer review in the past, but let’s go over some key things to make sure we are all on the same page.

Ready???

OKAY!!!!!

PEER REVIEW

This is the Rubric for the assignment. When I grade your finished annotated bibliographies, I will be evaluating them in these six areas, and rating them on a scale to arrive at an overall letter grade.

You will NOT be scoring these areas today – Peer Review, for our purposes, is not about grading. It is a process to help an author IMPROVE their work.

I’m including this here as something to work towards, not to be measured against.

PEER REVIEWFirst, you need to get your draft

somewhere that your peers can review it: Your Blog!

PEER REVIEWCreate a new post, titled “MA1 Draft”

Click the “Add Media” link, then “Upload Files” and “Select Files”

Navigate to your draft, and select it.

Click “ Insert Into Post” – there should now be a link you your document in the post.

Publish it now!

PEER REVIEWIn the assignment post for today on

the class website, there is a list of names.

They are YOUR names.

They indicate whose drafts you are expected to review.

PEER REVIEWEach draft will contain several

annotations.

For each annotation, you will write the author a brief note telling them what you HEARD, what you NOTICED, and what your WONDERED.

PEER REVIEWI HEARD . . .As a reviewer, first try to summarize the

annotation. This is the easy part. Tell the writer what you saw as the main idea.

As a writer, listen to this section, and try to hear whether or not you communicated what you were trying to communicate.

PEER REVIEWI NOTICED . . .As a reviewer, tell the author about some

of the things that attracted your attention. What worked well? What details seemed especially striking? What will you remember about this annotation?

As a writer, think about why the reviewer noticed these things, and how you can make all your writing as effective.

PEER REVIEWI WONDERED . . .As a reviewer, did you have any questions

when you finished reading? Did you not understand what something meant, or why it was included? Did something bother or disturb you? Did you suspect something might have worked better another way? This section is your chance to ask the writer all these questions.

As a writer, try to answer the reviewer's questions. Look at your writing again, and see if there is any way to make those points clearer to a reader.

PEER REVIEWAs you read the annotations, take notes

in a style of your choosing – scribbled on scraps of paper, typed neatly on index cards, frantically texted to yourself – whatever works.

After you finish the author’s draft, write them a short letter explaining to them what you Heard, Noticed, and Wondered.

When you are satisfied with your letter, post it as a Comment on the post containing their draft.

PEER REVIEWSome rules:BE NICE – no matter how shite the draft

is, always emphasize the positive.BE HELPFUL – give real advice, helpful

suggestions, and read the damn thing.BE HONEST – don’t pretend a draft is

the best thing you’ve ever read if it needs a lot of work; but see point 1, above.

PEER REVIEWWhen you have provided feedback to all

of the peers on your list:Write a brief letter to ME, your instructor,

following the same HEARD, NOTICED, WONDERED format, but this time try to encapsulate what you saw across all of the annotations you read.

E-mail this to me by Noon on Wednesday.

PEER REVIEWLast, but not least:

Please enjoy this music video , and I will see you Wednesday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vnM9I7HIo