Introduction due Sunday Nov 25 midnight
(emailed and posted here as a comment on the Final Paper page)
Peer Response due (i.e. posted) by Monday Nov 26 at 5pm
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PEER REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS
1. Pair up.
2. Read and react to your partner’s introduction using rubric below.
3. Post a comment on their introduction explaining your reaction.
(the following is excerpted from a presentation given by the head of the Dartmouth Writing Center)
“Reading as a Common Reader”
When you read as a common reader, you take note of the experience of reading: Are you interested? Bored? Confused? Enraged? Are you satisfied, even inspired by your reading? It’s important when reading an essay to keep in touch with your responses as a common reader; these responses will point you in the direction of a paper’s strengths and weaknesses. If you were confused, it’s likely that the sentences or paragraphs have broken down; if you were moved, it’s likely that the writer has written forcefully and clearly.
Moreover, keeping in touch with your “common reader” responses makes you less likely to jump too soon to criticism. Instead of looking at every word and turn of phrase to try to find what’s wrong, you can allow the language and ideas of the paper to make their impression on you. Common readers are receptive to the writer’s message. They suspend their disbelief, waiting until the end of the piece before they react critically. Keep close to your responses as a common reader; they will inform the more critical responses that you make later on.
Instructions for review:
As you read the paragraph, keep track of what you’re feeling. Then choose three feelings and submit them. In other words, if you were bored, you’d 1) declare that you felt bored (WHAT), 2) located the place in the text that you felt bored (WHERE) and 3) explain the reason for your boredom (WHY).
Use this format, and make 3 observations on their introductory paragraph:
Ex. WHAT (I felt annoyed)
WHERE (In your second sentence)
WHY (the language seemed complicated good reason. Instead of making things clear it actually came across as a little bit pompous.)
Please be respectful in your comments.
How to Upload your Introductory Paragraph:
–Log in using your wes email and password.
–Go to the Dashboard (it should come up automatically, if not then look at the top left of the site page).
–Go to “Posts” in the Sidebar menu. Click “Add new”
–Post your introduction.
–On the right side, you will see a list of boxes with student names. Click yours.
–Click the Blue Publish Button. Your post will then appear on the sidebar of the site with your name.
How to add your Peer Review:
–Go to the Final Paper Page
–The names of those who have posted appear on the right hand sidebar
–Click on their post, and reply with your thoughtful and sensitive comments.