This page describes the objectives, activities, submission guidelines, and on-going work required for the Peer Review of the Scholarly Project workshop.
Peer Review workshops allow you to engage one another in discussion of your work in process. Professionalism and professional success are built upon your ability to demonstrate your understanding of communication principles and practices not only 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.
Begin by retrieving the native Microsoft Word file (i.e., .docx file) from the workshop folder on Canvas Files.
To seek effective feedback, you have to 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. Compare these materials to your document.
Complete the Author sections of the Peer Review Form. To do so, replace the descriptive text that appears in brackets throughout the form with your responses to those prompts. Provide as much concrete, specific detail as you can throughout.
Reply to the prompt in the Canvas Discussion forum for this workshop. Attach the completed PR Form to that post.
Before you begin reviewing the work of anyone else, respond to two peers in the Discussion forum to identify yourself as one of their reviewers. To make sure that everyone gets a review from two peers, look for peers who do not already have two reviewers identified.
To offer effective feedback, you must deliver an honest assessment of your peer's work. Take some time to examine the drafts. Revisit the project description, your notes about the project, your own work on the project, and any sample documents. Compare these materials to your peer's document.
Complete the Reviewer sections of the Peer Review Form. Provide as much concrete, specific detail as you can throughout. These details should support and clarify the numerical evaluations you offer.
Respond, attaching your completed PR Form to your peer's post.
Check the review schedule in the Canvas Discussion forum for the workshop. Note the deadlines there for each phase. To earn credit for the workshop, post your Summary Report by the deadline listed.
Your report should present the following details.
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 upon completion.
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 50 possible points for this workshop. I will award points according to this standard.
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