Day30: Peer Perception Training

Objectives: We will be able to...

• know the definition of peer review 
• understand the benefits of peer review 
• use Microsoft Word Review functions for peer review 
• give structurally and linguistically effective comments as reviewers 
• analyze and make use of the comments as receivers 
• know how to prepare for peer review 

Peer review definition and benefits (10 min)

Go to the following Google Docs.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PklwHMZMV--7zDIhAHFSr2AXV-AaJ5mEaxA34JeN1ps/edit
(1) What is your own definition of “peer review”?
(2) Have you ever had peer review experience?
3) How did you like it?
(4) What are the advantages of doing peer reviews?

Children’s peer review video (5 min)

Watch the video and note down the mistakes children made when giving/receiving their peers’ comments.

Sample Paragraph Peer Review with MS Word (10 min)

Open the sample paragraph and review it using Microsoft Word Review functions.


Recognizing Effectiveness of Comments (5 min)
Read the comments on the sample paragraph and analyze them in pairs/small groups. –

1) Are they polite?
2) Are they useful?
3) Would you as a reader know what you should change to improve your paragraph after reading such comments?

Effective Comments (5 min)

Effective comments are:

· Specific
· Helpful
· Polite / honest

Please follow the P-Q-P method of commenting:

· Praise – what is good about the writing? (overall)
· Question – as a reader, what didn’t you understand?
· Polish – what specific suggestions for improvements can you give?

Use some cliché-structures to make your comments sound better:

• Could you...(e.g., elaborate on this point)?
• You might want to...
• It would be better to…
• Have you thought about…?
• How about...?
• I was a little confused about …. Did you mean…?

Writing Comments Practice (10 min)
Write an effective comment on this paragraph using P-Q-P structure and the cliché-language above.


Receiving Comments Practice (Out of Class Exercise)

You should not perceive your reviewers as opponents, rather as facilitators/collaborators.

Tips for comments’ receivers:
1) Read through all the comments from your reviewer before making any revisions
2) Read the comments with an open mind, regardless whether your instincts conflict with your reviewer’s opinion or not
3) If you really think the comment is questionable, ask someone else what they think
4) Focus on the revision of the large scale issues like content, focus, and organization first, before attending to sentence-level problems like grammar and word choice.

Read the first draft of the paragraph written by Li and the comments that Li received from her pee. Please also read how Li would rewrite/revise the paragraph taking into account the comments that she received.



Quick Announcement (5 min)
Writer’s Help eBook Exercises Requirement
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bghQw7V36RksMq9F8hjLxnOWHaelPMSpSjwOoSBe1bk/edit


Homework due Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 11:59PM

Write the first draft of your RA essay.
Name the file "RhetoricalAnalysis-firstdraft_YOURNAME"
Save it to the subfolder Unit3 in your Google Drive.
Prepare for the peer-review: finish the first draft of the rhetorical analysis essay.