2.4 Peer Perception

Outline of this lesson:

• Understand the goals of peer review.
• Provide "perception" feedback for peers regarding needed components for assignment
• what to comment in your peer's paper
• what constitutes effective/helpful feedback
• Receive "perception" feedback from your peer, and improve your own writing through reflection and analysis.

Ppt for this lesson

A. Discussions about peer review

• Do you like other people to read your work? Why/ why not?
• Have you ever had a peer review before? (if so, did you like it or not? why?)

B. Goals of a peer review 

C. Sample comments activity

1. Read the comments that you received 

• How do these comments make you feel?
• Do you think these comments will be helpful for you to revise your essay? Why/ why not?

2. Helpful comments: criteria & P-Q-P method

3. Fix the sample comments using P-Q-P method

D. Sample Peer Comments

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E. Provide feedback for your peer

use this Synthesis peer review sheet


F. Homework

1. Please finish writing synthesis essay feedback for you peer.
2. Please revise your own synthesis essay based on the feedback from your peer.
3. Please submit the 1st draft of your synthesis essay (compass2g website) by 11:59pm this Friday, 2015/10/16