Aaron's Peer Review Assignment
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Peer Review Guidelines
For the Rough Draft you receive for the Peer Review Process, you will submit what amounts to a two-page, typed, double-spaced Peer Review. (That is, it should run about 600 words). The Peer Review Process is designed to provide the reviewed person with a concise, detailed review of their paper and also to give the reviewing person practice in the art of writing analysis as well as the revision process.
Your review should be structured in paragraphs with topic sentences, just like your formal papers. That is, you should make sure your paragraphs focus on one element at a time (such as the thesis statement or analysis, for example). Do not hand in one long paragraph that skips from topic to topic. Also, this response should add to your in text commentary, NOT repeat it.
You are welcome to use the Rubric to guide your Review, but do not attempt to list and examine all ten categories. (You only have two pages) Instead, focus on the most significant ones your peer needs to hear about in order to improve the paper.
You may also note briefly how the paper feels, but you must back up any claims you make in your review with evidence from your partner’s paper, and the bulk of your review should be concrete analytic statements. You might also include some of Williams' ideas from STYLE.
Your review should be focused on providing the writer with constructive criticism and solutions. There is no need for rudeness, as we’re all trying to be helpful.
Post it on the same page as the paper itself, either above or below the existing paper, and separate it by 4 dashes, in order to make a section line. (or click the icon of the line if you're using FireFox)
This part of the assignment fulfills the process portion of your own paper, so, depending on how complete your peer review is, you'll be missing somewhere between 1 and 10 points. Furthermore, if you don't have a draft ready for review at class time (I asked for 600 ish words) then I'm not letting you review someone else.
You will of course, not be penalized as the reviewer for a draft that's not long enough. Do what you can with what you're given.
If you have any questions regarding the review that you receive, you are welcome to ask my opinion. To that end, be as clear as possible, as no student will be asked to explain their comments. You should not feel that you are bound to adhere to the reviewer’s advice, or change your paper to suit their comments. The Peer Review Process is designed to get another writer’s viewpoint, just like your visits to the Writing Center. You should receive sufficient commentary from me to perform most of your revisions, but you may also find the insights you receive here to be quite valuable.
