Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Unit: Assignment #3
Lesson: Peer response, looking at peer’s brainstorming, outlining process, and maps to help generate ideas for the long weekend and for the more in-depth peer response session for next Wednesday.
-I wanted to include these discussion questions as examples of the over-engineered attempts of mine to influence peer review sessions earlier in the semester, which is something I talked about in my Teaching Philosophy.
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1. How is/are the picture(s) used? Is visual communication used to enhance the paper, adding something new and irreplaceable that wasn’t there before? Is it formatted correctly with label, wrapped text, and not-blurriness?
2. Transitions: Are you speaking the same language, using the same established vocabulary in your transitions? Example: Do you bring up ‘history’ right before going into the ‘history’ of your place? Or ‘The Water Center wants bring its technology beyond Iowa’ before going into how the Center conducts said outreach?
3. The ISU Mission Statement, Land Grant status, and goals should be integrating naturally- they don’t detract from the flow of the essay nor take up too much space. It should be information to help inform the audience about the organization and how it fits into ISU. No more and no less.
4. Citations are a major part of this paper. Check online and with your Everyday Writer to make sure everything that needs to be cited is cited and cited correctly.
5. Discuss the main body of each person’s work. It’s not enough to just talk about what the organization wants or what it is- to get the full idea of the organization, you need specifics, a way to see its mission put into practice. Is that in the paper? Is it developed enough to give you a good idea of what the organization is about?
6. Is the paper too personal? Does it focus too much on what the writer likes and not enough on what the organization actually is?
7. Talk with each other- ask questions for clarification, confirmation, and elaboration. Sometimes just talking things out is one of the best ways to identify and fix problems.