As we begin to wrap up the 500-Word Summary Project, we will use peer review to request and receive feedback from your peers in the class. This serves two purposes: 1) you get experience working with the writing of others, which improves your writing ability through this critical engagement, and 2) you receive invaluable feedback and suggestions on how to improve your own writing from others.
To perform peer review on this assignment, do the following after watching this week’s lecture above:
- Watch for an email on Wednesday from Prof. Ellis to you and your teammates.
- Choose to “Reply All” to this email. This will send a single reply message to all recipients of the original email, which includes your teammates and Prof. Ellis.
- Open with a salutation to everyone.
- Introduce yourself to your team (major, career goals, hobbies).
- Write a message to your team–ask for feedback and offer to provide feedback.
- Copy-and-paste your 500-summary below your message.
- Give a closing and signature (Best, Your Name or Cheers, Your Name).
- As you receive emails from your team:
- Read their 500-Word Summary
- Click “Reply All” to their message
- Write a brief email (Salutation, Body, Closing)
- In the body:
- What works best
- What needs improvement
- Quote one random sentence and rewrite
it as a suggestion
- Remember to be polite, understanding, work through problems, be considerate, be the bigger person if there are any misunderstandings.
- Feel free to use your emails for discussion about the project and your team, but keep all discussion professional and appropriate.
- Reach out to Prof. Ellis if there are any unsolvable problems within your team at any point during the semester.
