As noted on the last page, a big part of the Writing Groups will be giving feedback to each other on your writing.
My guidelines for effective peer response can be found on Blackboard>Course Documents. Take a moment to review those guidelines. As part of a Peer Response report you will write soon, this will be the foundation you will start from.
The reading for this week is also full of great information for peer response.
Review your Reading Annotations from the Straub reading and list 3 important things about peer feedback that you got from that reading in a comment below.
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The one big part I got from the reading was that good feedback is full, thoughtful, and respectful.
1. If you know the writer, custom your feedback to what you know about them (personality traits)
2. Be direct, not aggressive
3. Give your constructive opinion, don’t take over their work.
1. Know the context of the work before reading to understand it better.
2. When giving praise, make sure to substantiate the claims with evidence
3. Never try to write for the writer, instead offfer suggestions and ideas
1. Maintain a supportive tone as a reviewer.
2. Make a mental checklist of everything that you are looking for in the reading.
3. Presentation of comments must be done write. It will effect how the writer take in the feedback.
1. Give advice that relates to the individual who wrote the piece
2. Be supportive!
3. Do not be too overbearing, you are the reader, NOT the writer.
1. If you must direct what could be written next, make sure it could be something interesting and relevant. Also be conscious of not impeding on the writer’s style.
2. Sometimes, less feedback is more. Nobody wants to read a whole paper in response to their rough draft. Keep the feedback on where the most improvement could be made.
3. Examining intent is important to help expand on parts where it may not be so obvious to other readers.
Three important things about peer feedback:
1. Provide honest feedback.
2. Responses should be as supportive as possible.
3. The work of revising and rewriting is solely reserved to the writer.
1. Do not take over the writing. Give advice, do not rewrite.
2. Do not forget to highlight what you liked about the writing as well.
3. Be honest, even if it is something you did not necessarily like in the writing. It is always better than lying.
1. Be aware of the personality you are talking to and how you say things
2. Suggest and do not change
3. Do not work over their work, make your suggestions on the side
1. You are not an editor you are a friend
2. Get to know the background of both the writer and the writing
3. As important as it is to criticize you also should comment when the writing is very good.
1. open ended questions are very helpful
2. Don’t just criticize; also try to point the writier in the direction of a solution
3. Don’t rewrite; describe how you perceived writing and offer ways to get points across more efficiently
1. Peer feedback should be critical but not too critical so you don’t overstep your boundaries.
2. Your job as a peer reviewer is essentially the writer’s first look at the audience’s point of view.
3. Suggestions are acceptable but rewriting isn’t (once again: boundaries!)