Project 1 Peer Review and Reading Response (For Monday)

For Monday, you'll need to complete two writing tasks, a review of a peer's Project 1 essay, and a Reading Response to the Brandt article. You also need to read that Chapter 3 Introduction in Writing About Writing. 

Here's how the peer review will work.

We'll assign partners and exchange e-mails in class. I'm hoping that I can get most people paired up with someone working on a similar topic. Partners will be expected to e-mail each other their drafts (including the cover letter inside the .doc) by no later than 3pm Friday (9/28)-the sooner the better really. If you do not receive a draft by this time, you need to send me an e-mail so I can send you the draft. Once you receive your partner's draft you'll want to follow the directions on the peer review sheet and critique your partner's essay inside their document. Once you finish (make sure you hit all the tasks on the peer review sheet), save the draft as a new file, for instance, Project1draftswithpeer'scomments.docx. Then e-mail this file back to your partner before class Monday. You'll also want to cc me on to the e-mail so I have a copy. If you can't figure out how to cc; just send me the new file you create in a separate e-mail. Please remember that your peer review is a major obligation according to the contract and I do expect you to do some thorough work, but please also keep in mind what we are going for when we critique someone eles's writing-constructive criticism, sweet before the sour.

For the reading response on Brandt, please do the pre-reading, summary, synthesis, and personal response as usual and respond only to question 1 under Applying and Exploring Ideas.