Peer Critique - Looking Ahead

[TTUEngl...@gmail.com]

PROMPT
"Course: 1301-012
Semester: fa07

Using the guidelines on p. 71 of your textbook, compose a critique of
your peer's draft. You will introduce the draft, summarize the
author's main points, assess and respond to the author's presentation,
and offer conclusions about the effectiveness of the analysis.
Remember to speak as specifically as possible about the draft, quoting
from it when necessary.

Your critique will be 400 - 500 words in length".

(Remember: Students must do TWO of them)

GROUP 2 APPROACH:
A 100 word discussion should focus on each of the following:
1. Thesis
"Quality, scope, and clarity"
2. Sources
"Relevance, integration, format"
3. Ethical Lens
"Utilitarian, Individual Rights, Justice" -from Cavanagh p. 384-386
4. Overall Structure
"Logical order of paragraphs, definite introduction/body/conclusion,
use of transitions"

ERRATA:
-Students don't need to verify sources
-Students should realize that they do not have to address every aspect
in each category, e.g. focusing on transitions if there are multiple
problems in the overall structure
-There is no designated order
-There is no need to write all responses as a single "essay"

If there is something missing, please feel free to post. This was the
result of the group discussion held on Friday, 5 October, 2007.

[lauri.m....@gmail.com]

Thanks so much. This looks great. The meeting was incredibly helpful!

[Ryan]

Hey All,

I'm not going to repost the my entire "looking ahead email," but I'm
pasting my three suggested prompts to supplement what Mark's provided
above. Your thoughts?

1. Does the draft include a strong, narrow thesis statement where the
ethical complexities are clearly defined? Likewise, does the thesis
statement take a position, stating if the issue is either ethical or
unethical?

2. Is it clear that the author is exploring the issue through one of
the three ethical lenses--utilitarianism, justice, and individual
rights? What evidence does the student provide that indicates he/she
understands this lens?

3. Does the author use the two sources to supplement the ethical lens
and/or support bold claims? Remember, you only needed to include at
least 2 sources for this assignment so not all claims will be
supported with a source. Regardless, provide some examples in the
essay that need further support or illustration. This will help the
author locate the 3 additional sources required for Draft Analysis
1.2.

On Oct 5, 9:53 am, TTUEnglish1...@gmail.com wrote:

[kandkg...@gmail.com]

Great! This all looks good to me, but I have two quick questions. Are
we going to be asking our students to write the 100-word section as a
part of the presentation assessment section? Also, what do y'all want
mean by "there is no need to write all responses as a single essay?"

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[Ryan]

Hey again, everyone.

Using the peer critique model Amber showed us yesterday, I wrote up
some suggestions for the prompts. Again, we decided that students
should either post each prompt (and then their answer) into TOPIC or
just number their responses 1-4. Your thoughts? If you like, I'll just
paste these into our Peer Critique page tomorrow.

1. Identify the writer's thesis and then evaluate it for
effectiveness. Discuss whether the thesis is specific enough and of
appropriate scope for this argument. Explain why or why not, and
provide suggestions for the writer to help improve the thesis, if
necessary.

2. Is it clear that the writer is exploring the issue through one of

the three ethical lenses--utilitarianism, justice, and individual

rights? What evidence does the writer provide that indicates he/she
understands this lens? You may want to refer back to Cavanagh's essay
(384-386) when answering this prompt.

3. Examine the use of the source material. Discuss whether or not the
sources are used appropriately and effectively integrated, or what
about their use can be improved. Explain to the writer how selecting
or integrating sources in a different way might improve the argument,
providing example revised versions of introducing, integrating, and
commenting on source materials.

4. Comment on the overall structure of the essay. For example,
explain in detail whether or not the paragraphs are presented in a
logical and persuasive way. Does the writer provide a clear
introduction, body and conclusion? Does each paragraph begin with a
clear topic sentence and transition into the next paragraph? Provide
examples that are particularly effective or areas that need more
improvement.

-Ryan

[Amber]

Katherine,

We decided that students should write 100 words for each of the 4
prompts/questions.

Ryan meant that students might select a sub-topic within each prompt
to focus on and write about. For example, the fourth prompt is on
overall essay structure, so a student might only discuss two critical
aspects like organization of essay info and transition sentences
(instead of trying to write about four or five sub-topics in 100 words
for that one question).

Does this clarify?

Amber

[TTUEngl...@gmail.com]

Ryan, If its ok with you, would you mind if I copy your assignment
description for my class? The only thing that I might change is to add
a disclaimer that not all questions need to be answered for full
credit, or perhaps let them know that each section requires a minimum
of 100 words.

Should we penalize for responses that are longer than 100 words?

[Ryan]

No feel free to use the prompts, Mark, that's why I'm posting the info
here. If we all agree, I'll add your suggested disclaimer to the final
criteria. I did add a "for example" phrase to the fourth prompt
because 100 words is not enough to answer every question posed there.

I don't think we should penalize students for going over 100 words,
providing those extra words are relevant to the assignment.

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[TTUEngl...@gmail.com]

Thanks Ryan, I'll write up the next prompt. . hehe. I'll teach to this
grading model in class on Monday and post it up on my instructor
announcements page. Unless decided otherwise, I'm going to assume that
students won't be penalize for going over 100 words per answer.

mr

[Walki...@gmail.com]

This prompt looks great. I just have one question...where do we post
our class notes/class outline? And, do we all need to do so if we are
using the same prompt?

Thanks,
kw

[Ryan]

Hey Katie -- The final assignment criteria listed on each Google page
allows you to post your short "what we did in class" synopsis. If you
want to post additional files you can click on the main "Files" link.
Make sure you reference the files in your synopsis for DIs.

-Ryan

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[Ryan]

Final grading criteria for Peer Critiques is uploaded to its Google
Page. Please go check it out.

On Oct 7, 2:41 pm, Walkiew...@gmail.com wrote:

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