Week 8 - Feedback and Improvement
Overview
This week's focus is on providing helpful feedback to peers to help them improve.
Receiving feedback from peers has several benefits. Peer review lets you
- TEST OUT your writing decisions with a practice audience
- see how OTHER STUDENTS APPROACH a similar writing task
- talk with peers about the CHOICES made and CHALLENGES faced when completing a similar writing task
- improve your own SELF-REFLECTION and REVISION skills.
The reviewing will take place using the Google Docs commenting feature. To help structure your comments, we will use an approach developed on an application called ELI Review, along with the criteria in the grading rubric for this assignment.
In this ELI Review model, you are asked to make three types of comments: DESCRIBE/ EVALUATE/ SUGGEST. The evaluative comments are done in light of the criteria for the assignment, which you should (re)read this week.
Reading
To prepare for the peer review:
1. Review the criteria for the assignment. Locate these in the instructions.
2. Read and watch this tutorial from the ELI Review: Feedback and Improvement. Make sure you understand the feedback process it outlines of DESCRIBE/EVALUATE/ SUGGEST.
Activities
- Provide feedback to your group members by Thursday, March 14, 11:59 p.m using Google Docs. (On-campus section should complete feedback by Wednesday, March 13). The online section received logistics instructions via Blackboard. The on-campus section will receive those instructions in class. Try to write comments that follow the DESCRIBE/ EVALUATE/ SUGGEST model.
- Submit a revision of the in-process draft of the deliberative argument as a Google Doc to Dr. Matson by Sunday, March 17, 11:59 p.m. [note that this is a date change]
- The cover memo should (1) explain the full context of the argument, meaning the audience, purpose, genre, and medium; (2) explain the feedback you've received and the revision completed this far; and (3) explain what you'd like feedback on from me.
- After you receive feedback from me, you will submit the "Best for Now" draft (BFN) to Blackboard for grading by Sunday, March 31, 11:59 p.m