{"id":302,"date":"2011-12-07T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T15:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2017-06-16T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:52:38","slug":"peer-response-on-drafts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/peer-response-on-drafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Response on Drafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making comments on your classmates&#8217; drafts may seem to put you in a funny position:\u00a0 You&#8217;re a peer, but it seems that you&#8217;re being asking to behave like an instructor.\u00a0 And you may not want to, understandably.\u00a0 But in fact, peer response is not about responding the way a teacher would, necessarily.\u00a0 Any writer will benefit from knowing what happened to\u00a0<em>you<\/em>\u00a0as you read his\/her piece.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>You do not have to be an expert reader to give useful feedback.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is a link to a 6 1\/2 minute video on how to work with peers about essay drafts:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ttv.mit.edu\/collections\/pwhs-wac\">http:\/\/ttv.mit.edu\/collections\/pwhs-wac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an\u00a0<a title=\"Key questions for peer review of first draft\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/key-questions-for-peer-review-of-first-draft\/\">example of some questions<\/a>\u00a0that you could ask about many academic essays, but especially Analytical Essay #2.<\/p>\n<p>Example of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/example-of-peer-comments-on-a-draft\/\">student response<\/a>\u00a0to essay draft.\u00a0 With the student response, you&#8217;ll notice that they don&#8217;t focus on correcting grammar&#8211;which is probably good because you may not feel that you&#8217;re an expert in grammar.\u00a0 However, you\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0know when you&#8217;re confused or when you think something is expressed.<\/p>\n<p>Example of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/peer-and-instructor-comments\/\">instructor and peer comments<\/a>\u00a0on same draft.\u00a0 Sometimes the peer responder here gives some advice, but many of the most useful responses are questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making comments on your classmates&#8217; drafts may seem to put you in a funny position:\u00a0 You&#8217;re a peer, but it seems that you&#8217;re being asking to behave like an instructor.\u00a0 And you may not want to, understandably.\u00a0 But in fact, peer response is not about responding the way a teacher would, necessarily.\u00a0 Any writer will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/peer-response-on-drafts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peer Response on Drafts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}