Writing Lab Hour Activity: Peer Review: Rhetorical Analysis Narrative Essay (Professor Rodgers)

Posted on May 1, 2015 by johannah rodgers
Assignment/Activity Title
Peer Review: Rhetorical Analysis Narrative Essay
Name
Johannah Rodgers
Brief Overview of Assignment/Activity Purpose:
To give students an opportunity to interview one another in order to understand the rhetorical context (audience, purpose) of their narrative essays
Keywords
rhetorical analysis, writing as a process, interview
Full Assignment/Activity Description
Designed to give students an opportunity to engage in a more advanced and rhetorically focused Peer Review exercise, this assignment could be used either in class or during the ENG1101 writing lab hour with either a second or third draft of a narrative essay.
Suggested Materials
Personal Literacies Narrative Essay Assignment
Personal Literacies Narrative Essay Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review Interview Guide
Instructions For Students
1. Break up into pairs.
2. Distribute Peer Review Rhetorical Analysis Interview Guide.
2. You will have ten minutes to interview each other about the recent draft of your essay.
3. As the interviewer, you are responsible for transcribing, to the best of your ability, the answers to the questions posed. As the interviewee, you are responsible for answering the questions. As the interviewer, you may also find yourself saying some interesting things. Therefore, please make sure that you have a blank sheet of paper (you can use the back of your draft essay) in front of you and a pen.
4. After ten minutes, switch roles.
5. After completing the interviews, please read your partner’s draft. Then, please discuss to these questions as the reader of the draft. Afterwards, compare and contrast your answers and the writer’s answers and discussing similarities and differences between them.
6. Write a letter to your peer reviewer explaining what you learned from this exercise.
Learning Objectives
  • Develop Rhetorical Awareness and Knowledge
  • Understand and Engage with Reading and Writing as Processes
  • Develop Critical Thinking, Reading, Writing, and Research Skills
  • Compose in Manual and Digital Environments
FYW Tags
  • Rhetorical Awareness
  • Writing as a Process
  • Writing Strategies
FYW Keywords
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Rhetorical Strategies
  • Drafting
  • Revision
  • Peer Review
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