peer review

Collaborative Brainstorming with Generative Artificial Intelligence

Activities, genAI, peer review, prewriting and invention, Process, reflection, writing technologies /

Kellene O’Hara and Elizabeth Williams Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Given the widespread use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), it is imperative that writing instructors teach students to use this technology, including Large Language Models (LLM), both critically and ethically. By providing students with opportunities to practice using these tools, discuss their affordances and […]

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Framing Bad News: Hedging, Voice, and HR Memos

Activities, collaboration and group work, Critical Language Awareness, drafting and revising, genre and discourse community, grammar and mechanics, peer review, professional writing, reflection, rhetorical situation, technical writing /

Chris Mayer Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This two-class sequence, which is an ideal fit for professional writing or business communication courses, helps students see how grammatical and lexical choices shape the ethical and practical work of workplace communication. The project culminates in students drafting a one-page memo delivering bad news through announcing policy

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“So What?” Speed Dating: Articulating an Argument’s Significance

Activities, critical thought and analysis, drafting and revising, Feedback, reflection, rhetorical appeals and argument /

Shannon Mooney Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity is intended to help students practice articulating the larger stakes, or the “so what,” of an argumentative or analytical assignment. The activity works best after students have developed complete drafts, and it can be easily adapted for any paper that requires students to present and

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Peer Review and the Writer’s Worksheet

drafting and revising, Feedback, peer review /

Anthony Edgington Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description There may be no writing classroom activity that garners such intense reactions as peer review. For some, peer review is seen as a positive, enthusiastic experience, one where students gain feedback on their essays that lead to robust revisions and extended development of the student as writer.

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Peer Review

drafting and revising, Feedback, peer review, Process, Volume 5 /

Erin E. Kelly Volume 5 Chapter Description Academic writing classes regularly require students to engage in peer review: that is, to read and comment on classmates’ work in progress in an attempt to make that work better. This chapter shows how such class activities connect to the practices of academic peer review associated with academic

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What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing

drafting and revising, Feedback /

Jillian Grauman Volume 4 Chapter Description Providing feedback to students is one of the most challenging parts of a composition instructor’s job (Caswell; Straub, Practice), and making use of that feedback (whether provided by a professor, tutor, or classmate) is just as challenging for students. While research has shown that students prefer feedback that helps

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