You may be wondering by now: why is there so much peer review? As we are an asynchronous course, our discussion board activity and peer review activities are part of what make our class a community. Additionally, I’ve seen some of you expand your projects after reading and interacting with the ideas of your peers. See this as a way of connecting.

For today’s peer review, we will follow the same process as before though you are only paired with one peer. You will read and offer critique for submissions of the Project Proposal for Unit 3 for your assigned partner. The instructions are below, followed by the critique questions.

(If you need to review how to do this technically on the OpenLab, see the previous video on the Peer Review process here.)

  • Find the post of your review partner in this post: Partner Assignments: Project Proposal Unit 3  Scroll down until you find your name and your partner. You have only one partner, so spend time on that person’s work as they will do for you.
  • Click on your partner’s post and read their proposal.
  • Read the overall submission.  Be respectful as you think about the proposal and respond to the idea being shared. You are responding to the work, not the person. This requires that you be mature and thoughtful. T
  • To offer your critique, click on ‘Leave a comment.”
  • In the box that appears for your comment, respond to your peers’ posts using:

FOUR GUIDING QUESTIONS FOR PARTNER REVIEW

  1. What genre is your partner going to explore in Unit 3? A podcast, a TedTalk, a magazine article, a poster, a brochure, or something else?
  2. Who is the audience being targeted?  Do you think this is right audience? Don’t just say “yes” or “no.” Offer an additional audience that might be appropriate. a
  3. What message is your partner trying to convey? Put this in your own words, so they can hear it back from you. Your wording of their message might spark a new idea for them.
  4. Respond to the quotation that your partner highlighted. Offer a paraphrase of the quotation and then analyze what you think the quote means and how it relates to the overall project.

Remember, you are not correcting grammar in your partner’s work. Do keep your comments appropriate to our professional college level environment.

Important Note: For attendance credit, you should comment/critique on the project proposal before 10 am, Thursday, Nov. 19. While you can respond to the comments on your own work, this is not a requirement for attendance credit.

A second note:  at the time of writing this post, some writers have yet to upload their work. Those names does not have a live link. Check back to see if those are uploaded late.