Project 2 Peer Review Instructions / Readings for Monday

Peer Review Instructions

As we've discussed in class, my absence on this coming Friday necessitates a few changes to the schedule. I'm going to try, below, to explain these as clearly as possible so that you know what's expected of you in terms of the peer review. It is your responsibility, however, to contact me if you have questions. 

• Instead of us meeting in Gordy or Ellis on Friday during class, I would like you all to meet on the second floor in the library and continue working in groups on your projects. I'm going to try to put up a sign-in sheet somewhere, so stay tuned for details about that. I will be in Louisville, Kentucky that day for an academic conference so I'm trusting you guys to meet with your groups without me that day. Please don't disappoint your group's expectations.
  
• Instead of exchanging drafts of your projects to each other by Thursday night, they are now due Friday by 3pm. To exchange drafts, all you need to do is elect one person in your group to send the project link to all of the members of another group. However, I also want you to draft a cover letter collaboratively and then include this cover letter in the email where you send out the link. We will assign partner groups on Wednesday

• Once you receive the link to another group's project, you are responsible for your own, individual peer review of that project. Like the peer review for Project 1, you'll need to follow the guidelines in the "Responding to Peer Writing" sheet (on Blackboard). This time, however, you'll want to compose the peer review in a separate Word document-since you can't comment in the actual project space. You'll also have to be creative with how you  identify certain passages and problems. So if you notice that something isn't effective, you'll have to be sure to identify where the passage is in the project. 

Reading and Reading Response for Monday

• You also have a reading response due to your blogs before class Monday morning. Please note that I have removed the Glenn readings. You are only responsible for the Chapter 4 Intro and the article by Swales. Do the reading response over Swales. Here's what I'm expecting:
  
• The second prompt under "Getting Ready to Read" that starts "Write a brief description of a time..."
• A summary of the article. 
• Synthesis-What connections can you make to other things we've read this semester?
• Personal Response
• Question #5 under "Questions for Discussion and Journaling."