Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Required Peer Review Sheet download
Lesson

Initial Post Instructions

Main Post Part 1: Attach Your Draft and Explain Your Goals
After you have thoroughly read and revisited this week’s lesson, you will be ready to perform rich, authentic, expansive, useful peer reviews for your classmates. This is one tool of several that you will use during the important process of revision. During revision, you will “re-vision” your writing to find ways to improve argument, focus, support, organization, voice, and all other aspects of an argument research essay; therefore, additional “sets of eyes” are extremely useful. What’s more, you, the reviewer, will pick up ways to improve your own paper while reading the approaches others are taking, during your reviews of your classmates’ essays.

To that end, this week in our discussion area, we will be sharing our full argument research essay drafts in a class peer review. In order to make this process run smoothly, please be sure to follow these instructions:

Find your name on the peer review assignment list provided by your professor to determine whether you are in Group A, B, C, D, or E.
Once you have located your assigned group (and no later than Wednesday), join that discussion area by attaching your most recently revised draft as your initial post.

This may be the draft you submitted to your instructor in Week 5, or you may have made changes since then and will wish to post your most updated copy (remember the “good” to “great” portion of the Lesson!)
In your post, also compose a good paragraph offering information about your draft in which you address at least three of your major revision goals. Do not list mechanical items like grammar and APA because it is a given that you’ll edit and proofread for those items. Instead, note at least three content-related goals, such as stronger support for one point, connecting sources to your logic more powerfully, and unifying your points to align well with your thesis. These are just examples; please write a paragraph that notes your own goals and explains the “why” and “how” of those. Be sure to ask your professor if you have any questions about the peer review process.

Peer Review (Follow-Up Post) Instructions

You must reply to one of the peers in your group with a full review of that peer’s draft.

Find the peer who has posted after you in terms of time.
Read their attached essay and any notes they left to accompany the draft.
Download the Peer Review Sheet and complete the form.
Return your completed Peer Review Sheet as an attachment in a response post to your peer. Peer reviews must be completed and posted as a reply to your classmate no later than Friday night. The reason your peer review is due earlier in the week than other discussion replies is that your classmate must have enough time to utilize your feedback.
Through Sunday: Continue to check into your group Discussion area to reply back to your reviewer with any questions or clarification you have for them and to check for questions and comments from the student you reviewed.

Solution:

Week 6 Peer Review Worksheet

Use the table below as you conduct the Week 6 Peer Review. Your grade for this discussion will be derived from your work on the peer review you perform. You may not begin performing your peer review until you have made your own main post (your draft and your goals). Once you have completed thepeer review, reply to your classmate’smain posts by attaching this completed peer review sheet, along with any comments you would like to make.

Student you are reviewing: ____

Your name: __

Element

Comments or Suggestions for Improvement

Please compose at least three full sentences for each element (many elements will likely be longer once you begin explaining and offering feedback). Be specific, adding examples and suggestions where needed.

Structure and Unity: Is the thesis statement narrow and clearly arguable? Do the points in the body and the content of the conclusion clearly support the thesis statement? Please be specific and offer reasons, suggestions and examples.

The paper introduction paragraph has a comprehensive and arguable thesis statement. It reflects the content of the argumentative paper. Also, shas summed up all the points made in the paper and thesis statement in the conclusion paragraph.

Organization: Look at the ordering of body paragraphs and at the ordering of sentences within the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Is everything arranged in the most effective order for you, as a reader? Please be specific and offer suggestions, reasons, and examples.

There are numerous paragraphs in the paper. Notably, some of the paragraphs are significantly long. Still, Audra maintained effective transition between the paragraphs. There is need to include cocluding sentences in each of the paragraphs. Whereas there are topic sentences, there are no concluding some of the sentences.

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