2. Peer review: You are a living
example
How do students respond to peer reviwew?
When you ask students to write something, do
they give it to a partner before they give it to
you?
Do they feel comfortable when classmates
correct their work?
Who do they prefer corrections to come
from, classmates or the teacher?
3. Checklist Essay 3: Peer response
sheet
4th line: Printed and stapled together
with (answered and signed) peer
response sheet.
Give Essay 3 to a classmate to read and
write things on (remember that others
will be able to see what you can’t see
in your writing)!! This is worth 1
point.
Prepare an 8 question PEER
RESPONSE SHEET to guide your
classmate with his/her review of your
work (what do you want your
classmate to help you see??). Avoid
asking “is my grammar right?”
Better, “am I using the right word?”
You have 6 sample questions on the
back of the contabilidad sheet I gave
you today (this document, “Sample
objectives and topic areas” is also
available in:
More > Files > 13generacion > Class
presentations
4. Peer Response Sheet (sample
questions)
1. Do I still have run-on sentences? Are my paragraphs
really paragraphs?
2. Do I discuss too many ideas in one paragraph?
3. Should I change the order of my paragraphs?
4. How can I develop paragraph X? What else could I
say?
5. What suggestions do you have for my conclusion?
Do I conclude too abruptly?
6. What mistakes are there in my reference list (APA)?
7. Am I citing my sources correctly (APA)?
8. Can you help me think of a good title for my essay?
(5 – 8 questions)
Thank you for checking my paper!
5. Please, help me correct the
mistakes in my reference list:
Taylor & Francis Group, 1996Adult Learners-education and Training: Boundaries of adult
learning. 2. The learning society.
Dorothy MacKeracher – 2004. Making Sense
of Adult Learning
Katie Head, Pauline Taylor – 1997. Readings
in Teacher Development. Heinemann English
Language Teaching
6. I recommend:
Print your first Essay draft and peer response
sheet, bring them to Oct. 26 session and ask a
classmate to read it and answer peer response
sheet for you.
Or
Send your first Essay draft and peer response
sheet to a classmate, ask him/her to read your
essay and answer peer response sheet and
send it back to you.
Printed / online, your choice.
7. Bibliography
Liu, J. and Hansen, J. G. (2002). Peer
response in second language writing
classrooms. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan
Press.
MacKeracher, D. (2004). Making Sense of
Adult Learning. Toronto, Buffalo, London:
University of Toronto Press Incorporated.
(both available in Google books and our
library)
