Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Monday, March 19
Project 3 Proposal workshop
Thesis statement activity – bring a draft of your thesis
statement typed and printed to class.
Friday, March 23
Classwill not meet due to Frankenstein symposium.
There will be an online assignment announced.
Peer Feedback
❖ Analyzing the writing of others can help you to improve
your own writing.
❖ It helps you to identify and address similar problems in
your own writing.
❖ Peer review helps you to learn to read a paper not with
the goal of learning about the subject matter but with the
goal of evaluating how well the text is composed.
❖ These skills can then be transferred to your own paper.
❖ Peer reviewers give us insight into how others interpret our
meaning.
Focus on What’s Needed at the Time Consider the Evidence
❖ Global revisions are more important ❖ Development is often the most
than errors. important aspect of effective writing.
❖ Focus on areas provided by peers or ❖ This particular assignment is about
instructor. summary and synthesis, so you want
❖ Does the writer address the to be sure that the paper is offering
assignment? clear summaries and connections
❖ Are the writer’s meaning and purpose between sources.
clear? ❖ Is there sufficient support for the
writer’s discussion of the topic?
❖ Writers need to work on improving
the content of their paper before ❖ Do you find the writer’s discussion
correcting sentence-level errors. easy to understand?
❖ What can the writer add or explain
❖ You are uniquely qualified to give to make the paper stronger?
feedback because you are all
members of the same class working
on the same assignments.
Notice Organization & Flow of Ideas Annotate as You Read