Suggested Interactions I have found are helpful to writers in a sentence workshop Questions about Choices Made: Why did you choose [certain word or phrase that interests you]? This word makes me think about… Why this order for your sentence? …
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Lesson: The Peer Review of Elimination
Contributed by Natalie Taylor, 2015 Summary: Students pair up and take the pen to unnecessary sentences, phrases, and words in order to trim their paper down. This peer review session focuses on the practice of revision. Description: On peer review day, students came with 1 copy of their first draft of a paper. They …
Lesson: Cut-it-up Peer Review
Contributed by Natalie Taylor, 2015 Cut-it-Up Peer Review Summary: Students take the scissors to their partner’s draft and help them rearrange it. This peer review session focuses on organization and transitions. Description: At the beginning of class (or in the previous class) we talk about different organization methods for the type of …
Lessons: Peer Review Activites
Here are several peer review activies from Patty Cady, Washington State University:
Handout: Questions to Ask When Reviewing/Revising an Essay
Is there a clearly stated purpose/objective? Are there effective transitions? How is this idea related to my thesis? How is this idea related to the ideas that come before and after it? Are the introduction and conclusion focused on the main point of the essay? As a reader, can you easily follow the writer’s flow …
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Handout: Peer Review Instructions
As a reviewer, your role is now, in part, an editor and an assistant writer. You want to think about the piece of writing as if you do not know where it is coming from, so think of it as an artifact. As you look at the artifact, think about how it stands on …