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Peer Response Guidelines I will place you into response groups. 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 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. Guidelines for Peer Response: Review the Writer's Autobiography Rubric to help you be an effective responder. Divide your responses 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 areconfused, 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....
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