Feedback developed by Estee Beck, PhD General strategies for peer response attribution to an unknown author The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Peer Feedback Research in writing studies show evidence that undergraduate student writers are not familiar with providing adequate peer feedback, and instead rely upon mildly pleasant comments as a way to not offend a fellow student. At the same time, getting feedback is a crucial step in writing. Feedback provides insight from a detached reader, who may provide overall direction for the works-in-progress. Learning how to give feedback requires practice, patience, good reading skills, and sensitivity toward relations. But, students need training with how to give good peer feedback. How to give not-so-great feedback: Here’s a sample paragraph from a friend who has asked for some feedback on the scope of the paragraph. He’s concerned that the summary paragraph does not provide enough detail to conclude a section of the paper. for working within electronic computer Although computers & writing and digital rhetoric employ different methodologies benefits apply to classroom based writing practices along with research and scholarship, the ultimate quest provides insight into a knowledge and information exchange economy through and with digital technologies. As people make -mediated spaces, both fields form around a sense of searching for how people and machines interact with each other. While the advancements with digital technologies, especially with movement in the multi- million dollar Internet of Things industry, the relationship of not just human-to- machine interaction, but also machine-to-machine interaction will become important for rhetoricians to address. Again, understanding the function of rhetoric in algorithmic processes is just one step in support of positioning a rhetorical code studies as central to rhetorical scholarship. Comment [BE1]: I have no idea what this means! Comment [BE2]: Long Comment [BE3]: Who cares? Comment [BE4]: This is a horrible paragraph. The comments in the margins show a few traits: An uncaring critique, ignorance, inadequate explanation, and a final comment that’s not too pleasant to read. What’s missing from the four comments? Here’s the same paragraph, with some alterations: Although computers & writing and digital rhetoric employ diferent methodologies Comment [BE6]: Punctuation Comment [BE5]: Spelling error for working with electronic computer mediated spaces both fields form a sense of searching for people and machines interact with each other. While the benefits apply to classroom based writing practices along with research and scholarship, the ultimate quest provides insight into a knowledge and information exchange economy through and with digital technologies. As people mke advancements with Comment [BE7]: Spelling error digital technologies, especially with mov.