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Activity 1: What is peer review?
Have you ever participated in a peer review session? If so, what did you do? In this class, you will critique two of your classmates’ essays, ans you will receive feedback from 2 of your classmates as well This process will help you reflect on your writing, and revise it.
Here are the peer review questions we will use:
peer-review-questionsActivity 2: Your draft
peer-review-instructionsActivity 3: What to do?
Go to Peer Review in our Discussion Board. Submit your draft of the argumentative essay. Review two of your classmates’ essays using the Peer Review Questions by replying to their posts with essay drafts. The goal here is to select essays that haven’t yet been peer-reviewed or that have been peer-reviewed once. If this isn’t possible, you may comment on any essay available. .Please note: if the deadline for the draft submission has passed and there is only 1 essay for you to review, your job is to only review that 1 essay. If there are no essays to review, review your own essay. I will not penalize you for not reviewing work that isn’t there, but you must still complete the assignment to receive credit. Ideally, everyone will receive feedback from 2 classmates, and provide feedback to 2 classmates. Good luck.
50 points: you submitted your essay by the deadline
50 points: you peer-reviewed available essays by deadline
25 points extra: complete one of this week’s extra credit assignments
Activity 4: Submit annotated bibliography on Blackboard.
You are writing an annotated bibliography as an indication of the sources you intend to use for your essay. The goal here is to continue thinking critically about your topic and the sources you decide to incorporate into your essay. Your annotated bibliography must include at least 4 sources relevant to your topic. For each source,
- write 3-5 sentences summarizing or describing content, including the main idea/ argument
- 1-2 sentences providing an evaluation of the source’s usefulness: why the source is interesting or helpful to you.
I encourage you to (re)use your source from the Summary and Response assignment here. Review the sample annotated bibliography here: Argumentative Essay Packet CRT 100.pdf
Activity 5: Extra credit opportunities
Select 1 of the 3 options below for up to 25 extra points on your peer review grade.
- Schedule an appointment with a tutor at BMCC’s Writing Center or CRT tutoring. Bring your essay draft and essay guidelines. Take a screenshot of your confirmed appointment. Write a brief paragraph stating what you worked on during the session. Submit both on Blackboard under Week 10 Extra Credit.
- Read one sample argumentative essay, and answer this question: how can reading the sample essay help you with revising your own essay? Be specific. (200 words min)
- Once you have received feedback from classmates, think about how you may want to revise your draft. Address the following questions: What, according to your critics, are the strengths of your draft? Do you agree? What, according to your critics, might you need to work on? Do you agree? How do you plan to revise and improve your draft? Be specific (200 words min).
Activity 6: Sample essays
Read one or more of the essays below as you think about how to revise your own essay.
mackay-essayActivity 7: Cartoon
Go to Blackboard to see this week’s cartoon. What is the message?
