Transcript ENGL 1302: Advanced College rhetoric

ENGL 1302: WEEK 6 (PEER CRITIQUES)
SECTION 001 AND 006
MR. LABRIOLA
ROADMAP
• Questions/Problems
• Peer Critique (assignment)
• Peer Critiquing Techniques (chapter 4 of St. Martin’s)
• Peer Critique Activity (as a class)
QUESTIONS/PROBLEMS
• Any problems you found during your Lit Review?
• I tried to answer every person’s emails as fast as I could
• Those that emailed me for help I saw improve each draft
LITERATURE REVIEW
• The draft 1.1 is over
•
This does not mean you can forget about your literature review
• The draft 1.2 is due March 13th (less than a month away)
• Take these peer critiques seriously
• As soon as you get your grade back, look at the commentary from both
grader 1 and grader 2
• Talk to me if you have questions about your comments/don’t understand what
a grader was saying
USE YOUR TEXTBOOK
• Please use the
textbook
• You have assigned
readings every
week on
RaiderWriter
• Don’t make me start
making reading
quizzes
Similar to the “joy” of revising
Source: Search Patterns by Peter Morville &
Jeffery Callender
PEER CRITIQUE (ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION)
• Objective: To demonstrate your ability to critique a text (in this case, a
literature review) and articulate your critique to the text’s author.
• Description: After you have read the draft provided, please respond to each
of the following prompts as specifically as possible, using detailed examples
and selected passages from the draft you have read to illustrate your points
and validate claims about that draft. The minimum length of the critique
(excluding questions should you choose a Q&A format) is 300-500 words. You
will critique TWO literature reviews.
PEER CRITIQUE (ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION CONT)
• What is the author’s thesis statement, which helps to guide the reader for the
purpose of the literature review? Is the purpose of the review clear from reading
the first paragraph? In other words, can you tell if the review shows what
research has been done on a given topic? Or has the author chosen to compose
the literature review to explain to readers why certain ideas or theories
concerning a topic are being challenged or re-examined by researchers? If the
author does not give a clear purpose, what does the purpose seem to be?
• How has the author chosen to organize the research that he or she is reviewing?
How well does this structure work? Does the author synthesize the research,
showing how various researchers fit together, rather than just summarizing
sources? Is there another way to organize the information?
PEER CRITIQUE (ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION CONT)
• Examine the use of the source material. Discuss whether the sources are
relevant and reliable, as well as whether they are used appropriately and
effectively integrated. Explain to the writer how selecting or integrating
sources in a different way might improve the review, providing examples of
revised versions of introducing, integrating, and commenting on source
materials.
• What have you learned as a result of doing this peer critique that you can
either apply to or avoid in revising your own literature review draft?
Source: St. Martin’s ehandbook
Ch. 4b
Source: St. Martin’s ehandbook
Ch. 4b
PEER CRITIQUE CLASS ACTIVITY
• As a class, we are going to go through some of your peers’ 1.1
drafts
• We will utilize our critiquing strategies to point out:
• Areas for improvement
• Places/things they do well
• Things missing/needed
QUESTIONS?
HOMEWORK DUE BY CLASS (3/2)
• On our course website: 1302.jacklabriola.com
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participation credit
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