Guidelines and instructions for peer review.

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2. PEER REVIEW
In academic publishing, “Peer Review” is
often held to be the gold standard for
determining quality.
Rather than a single editor or fact-checker,
Peer Review relies on a variety of experts
in a field to provide their criticism and
suggestions on a paper or essay.

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Today, you will use this same principle to
get helpful feedback on your drafts.
Believe it or not, you are EXPERTS
in your field; you’ve been writing academic
essays for most of your lives!

4. PEER REVIEW
You have likely done some form of peer
review in the past, but let’s go over some
key things to make sure we are all on the
same page.
Ready???
OKAY!!!!!

5. PEER
REVIEW
This is the Rubric for the assignment.
When I grade your finished annotated
bibliographies, I will be evaluating
them in these six areas, and rating
them on a scale to arrive at an overall
letter grade.
You will NOT be scoring these areas
today – Peer Review, for our
purposes, is not about grading. It is a
process to help an author IMPROVE
their work.
I’m including this here as something to
work towards, not to be measured
against.

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First, you need to get your draft somewhere
that your peers can review it: Your Blog!

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Create a new post, titled “MA1 Draft”
Click the “Add Media” link, then “Upload Files” and
“Select Files”
Navigate to your draft, and select it.
Click “ Insert Into Post” – there should now be a link
you your document in the post.
Publish it now!

8. PEER REVIEW
In the assignment post for today on the
class website, there is a list of names.
They are YOUR names.
They indicate whose drafts you are
expected to review.

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Each draft will contain several annotations.
For each annotation, you will write the
author a brief note telling them what you
HEARD, what you NOTICED, and what
your WONDERED.

10. PEER REVIEW
I HEARD . . .
As a reviewer, first try to summarize the
annotation. This is the easy part. Tell the
writer what you saw as the main idea.
As a writer, listen to this section, and try to
hear whether or not you communicated
what you were trying to communicate.

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I NOTICED . . .
As a reviewer, tell the author about some of the
things that attracted your attention. What
worked well? What details seemed especially
striking? What will you remember about this
annotation?
As a writer, think about why the reviewer
noticed these things, and how you can make
all your writing as effective.

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I WONDERED . . .
As a reviewer, did you have any questions when you
finished reading? Did you not understand what
something meant, or why it was included? Did
something bother or disturb you? Did you suspect
something might have worked better another way?
This section is your chance to ask the writer all
these questions.
As a writer, try to answer the reviewer's questions.
Look at your writing again, and see if there is any
way to make those points clearer to a reader.

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As you read the annotations, take notes in a
style of your choosing – scribbled on scraps
of paper, typed neatly on index cards,
frantically texted to yourself – whatever
works.
After you finish the author’s draft, write them a
short letter explaining to them what you
Heard, Noticed, and Wondered.
When you are satisfied with your letter, post it
as a Comment on the post containing their
draft.

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Some rules:
BE NICE – no matter how shite the draft is,
always emphasize the positive.
BE HELPFUL – give real advice, helpful
suggestions, and read the damn thing.
BE HONEST – don’t pretend a draft is the
best thing you’ve ever read if it needs a lot
of work; but see point 1, above.

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When you have provided feedback to all of
the peers on your list:
Write a brief letter to ME, your instructor,
following the same HEARD, NOTICED,
WONDERED format, but this time try to
encapsulate what you saw across all of
the annotations you read.
E-mail this to me by Noon on Wednesday.

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Last, but not least:
Please enjoy this music video , and I will see
you Wednesday!
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