Tutorial 3

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Peer Review

Why Do Peer Review?

• Peer review of other students’ work helps you to build early preparation and thorough revision into your writing habits.
• It makes you more aware of your audience (your future reader) and develops the critical skills you will need to revise your own work well.
• By seeing others’ writing you will build a better picture of your own strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and gain the confidence to revise your own work more radically.
• Peer review nearly always improves the work of both the editor and the writer – plenty of students report that they learnt as much from editing somebody else’s work as they learnt from having their own work edited.

Rules for completing a Student Reader Report:
A. Respect the other student’s work:
* Use pencil
* Indicate errors with a sign in the margin and light underlining
* Use the report sheet for comments rather than cluttering the text.

B. Consider: Is the writer exactly on topic? Have they answered the question fully?

C. An editor’s role is to improve interest, clarity, effectiveness, and accuracy. Give some help with proofreading if you can, too. Remember, you are not being asked to grade or assess the assignment.
Research shows that good writers constantly scan (read over) what they have already written. Good student writers make several drafts, and the best student writers make the most radical revisions between drafts.

Peer Review – Assignment 1
Work in pairs. Use the Student Reader Report accompanying Assignment 1 to give feedback on your partner’s draft of Assignment 1.
Your partner will hand in the completed SRR next week as part of their Assignment 1.
 

 

 

Generating Ideas

1. In small groups, generate ideas on the topic of “young people and advertising”.
a.  Choose a method which you haven’t tried before to explore the subject. Take about 15-20 minutes. 
b. Based on the ideas you have generated, what could you focus on for an academic essay on this topic?

Either:
a. Try to capture the main idea in a single sentence. This could become the thesis statement of an essay on this topic.
  Or:
b. Briefly outline the main areas you might focus on for an essay on this topic. Do not try to include too much - the more specific, the better.  

Bring these ideas to next week’s tutorial to help you.