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Peer Response Guidelines I will place you into response pairs. Your task is to respond to each others' drafts, avoiding becoming editors. If there is only a small group enrolled in the course, there will be only one peer response group. You will send your draft by attachemnt to a member of the class via email, using the Communicaiton feature in Blackboad. When you have composed a response following the guidelines below, you will send the response to the student and also send it to my email (being sure to label well--Ex. "Whitelock Response to Smith Draft"). You are not to respond to issues of spelling, punctuation, or grammar errors. The focus is on ideas. Your task is to help the writer see how the words on the page affect a reader. Use this Format, including these Subject Headings in your response: Greetings: Tell the student a bit about yourself and specifically praise certain features of the essay. Global Comments: Address only content features: focus/thesis, development, organization, using specific concrete detail (see Rubric link below). Local Comments: While we are not going to focus on editing for error in this response, if you do see one or two repeated errors that constitute an "error pattern," point out one or two examples, model how to fix it, and have the writer look for the rest. In Sum: Provide some closing comments for the writer. Review the Discourse Community Rubric to help you be an effective responder. Some Tips: When I am responding to a draft, I print it out and use the symbols below as I read to point out pluses, minuses, and question marks. This helps me to compose a response using the format outline above. Note that here we are just practicing tutoring with each other, so keep in mind all that we are discussing and reading. So as you read through the draft to prepare a response, divide your responses as you read into 3 categories: Plus + This is the part where you practice praising, which is very important in tutoring. When you praise, be specific. Refer to a specific idea, sentence, image, or word and explain why you like it. Here are some sentence beginners that might help: I really like the part where you... The image you use in paragraph 2.. The strongest part of your essay is... Minus- Explain where as a reader you are confused, need more information, want clarification. Here you are playing back your reading experience to the writer, letting the writer know what might not be coming across clearly. Be specific. Good writers realize that sometimes they think they are perfectly clear in what they are saying, and know that feedback from editors and colleagues help them see where they need to work on the words on the page--adding, deleting, and changing--to make the words on the page better carry their intention. I had trouble understanding the part... I'm not sure what you mean when you say... I needed more information in the part where... When I look at the rubric, I see that you need to... Questions? In this section, ask the reader questions that occured to you while you were reading, as if you are in a dialogue with the writer sitting next to you. Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How.... Use open-ended questions.
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