Monday, February 23, 2015

Research Project - Peer Feedback and Revision

For today you completed a rough draft of your essay - congratulations!

During our time together today you will read and respond to two different essays. This will happen anonymously.
Here's what you will do:

  1. When you receive an essay, take the time to read it thoroughly before you do anything else.
  2. Open this peer feedback form and make a copy of it to use.
  3. Be sure to give it a name - use the 4 digits of the ID of the writer.
  4. Take your time to give thoughtful and thorough feedback.  Note that for some questions you just need to give a rating, but for others you need to type out your response.
  5. When you are finished, print out your feedback.
  6. Keep in mind you are reading another student's work for the purpose of giving them constructive criticism about how to improve it. Don't just praise it to make the person feel better! At the same time, be respectful in your comments.
  7. You will repeat this process a second time.
  8. Both of these readings will happen during 3rd period.  For 4th period, you will receive your essay and both sets of feedback. You will then have the rest of the time to work independently.