Peer Review workshops allow you to engage one another in discussion of your work in progress. Professionalism and career success are not only built upon your ability to demonstrate your understanding of communication principles and practices in your own work, but also in your ability to promote such qualities in the work of others. Most professional writing is collaborative in some sense. Offering and soliciting peer feedback is a core activity for working professionals.
The Peer Review workshop requires you to complete 3 tasks.
Retrieve the Peer Review form from the workshop folder on Canvas Files (see Workshop Support). Note that I provide two versions of the form: an editable document in DOCX format; a printable document in PDF.
To seek effective feedback, you must begin with an honest assessment of your own work. Take some time to examine your draft. Revisit the project description, your notes about the project, and any sample documents that I have made available. Compare these materials to your document and assess honestly and objectively how your draft does and does not yet meet audience needs and expectations.
Complete the Author sections of the Peer Review Form. To do so, score your report in response to each of the prompts in the three sections: Content Development, Document Design, and Professionalism & Attention to Detail. Add concrete, specific detail to the open-response spaces throughout. These details should support and clarify the numerical evaluations you offer. Do not leave any areas blank in the Author section of the form.
Reply to the prompt in the Canvas forum for this workshop that is reserved for review participation. Attach your completed PR Form (in DOCX or PDF) AND your complete DA Draft (in PDF) to that post. Invite peers to offer you feedback.
Note: If you choose to complete your review in handwritten form on a printed PR document, then make sure your notes are professional and legible. Scan your annotated document and convert it to PDF. Use a scanning app. Do not use your camera app to capture pictures of the form pages.
Before you begin reviewing the work of anyone else, respond to 2 peers in the Discussion forum to identify yourself as 1 of their reviewers. That is, respond to 2 peers to say "I will review your draft." To make sure that everyone gets a review from 2 peers, look for peers who do not already have 2 reviewers identified.
To offer effective feedback, you must deliver an honest assessment of your peer's work. Take some time to examine each draft. Revisit the project description, your notes about the project, your own work on the project, and any sample documents I have provided. Compare these materials to your peer's document.
Complete the Reviewer sections of the Peer Review Form for your review partners. Provide as much concrete, specific detail as you can throughout. These details should support and clarify the numerical evaluations you offer.
Respond to each of the 2 peers' original discussion posts, attaching your completed PR Form to your response.
Note: If you posted your draft on time at the beginning of the week, but do not receive 2 responses by Friday night, then you are welcome to construct your Summary Report (see below) using what you have. If you do not receive 2 responses, for your own benefit and success with the project, consider visiting the Writing Center. If you do so, bring the assignment description, your draft, and your completed Peer Review form.
Note: If you did not post your draft on time at the beginning of the week, and do not receive 2 responses by Friday night, then visit the Writing Center to seek an external review of your work. Bring the assignment description, your draft, and your completed Peer Review form.
Your report should present the following details. Draw on the responses you received from peers.
Develop each point in your discussion. Offer specific details about your work and from your peers' feedback. Each discussion section should be 100–150 words when complete.
Post your Summary Report to the appropriate Discussion forum on SVSU Canvas. You may develop it as a separate .RTF document, or compose it directly in the forum. Note that you need not share your Peer Review forms (your version or your reviewer versions). You will submit those documents with your final Design Assessment project.
For the first stage of the workshop, post your peer review form and Design Assessment draft to the Canvas forum dedicated to the review portion of this workshop, as has been detailed above.
Post your completed reviews of your peers' work in response to their initial invitation to reviewers.
For the final stage of the workshop, post your summary report to the Canvas forum dedicated to the report portion of this workshop, as has been detailed above.
Note the timeline in the description on the forum for deadlines.
This section describes the standards by which your work will be evaluated for this workshop. Attend carefully to these details. If you do so, you will earn full credit for the workshop.
There are 100 possible points for this workshop, 50 for each major stage: review, reporting.
For the review stage, you will earn points according to this standard.
For the reporting stage, you will earn points according to this standard.
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