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Conducting Peer Review

The CWE Digital Dashboard provides links to a variety of resources. Mouse over the icons to the right to view the resource type each represents. MSU CWE Handouts Print Resources (e.g., books, articles) PowerPoint or Other Slide Presentations Wikis PDFs (Adobe Acrobat) Videos Tutorials and Exercises Podcasts Websites

OVERVIEW

Peer review writing workshops can provide a valuable learning experience for students. Workshops are a stable of most composition classrooms, but they can be used to enhance learning through writing in any discipline. The resources on this page will help you to understand what peer workshops are and how you can integrate them into your course.

GENERAL RESOURCES

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Collaborative Learning/Learning with Peers
Source: The Institute for Writing & Rhetoric, Darmouth College
Description:This handout discusses the purposes, approaches, and issues involved in collaborative learning in the writing classroom.

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Conducting Writing Workshops
Source: The Institute for Writing & Rhetoric, Darmouth College
Official Description: "The writing workshop is the heart of the successful writing classroom. In these workshops, instructors use student papers (in part or in whole) as the basis of discussion and instruction….Talking about student writing in class signals to your students that their writing is important. Treating student writing as one of the many course texts lets them know that they have, indeed, entered into the ongoing conversation of scholarship."

PowerPoint Peer Review Presentation
Source: OWL at Purdue
Official Description: "This presentation is designed to acquaint your students with the concept of peer review. This presentation will include the who, what, where, when, and why of peer review. The slides presented here are designed to aid the facilitator in an interactive presentation of the elements of peer review. This presentation is ideal for any level of writing, including freshman composition."
website Creating Effective Peer Response Workshops
Univ. of Minnesota Center for Writing
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