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last.updated 12.1.13

 

Peer Review: Research Remix

Purpose

In today's class you will peer review each other's Research Remix so that you will all understand how an audience may read your essay.

Freewrite: Setting the Rhetorical Scene

With as much detail and specificity as possible, answer the following questions to help your peers understand what you are trying to do with your Research Remix. Compose your answers in a document on your computer screen.

  • Who is your audience for this remix? Why did you choose this audience? What other audiences do you anticipate might expereince this text?
  • What are you trying to accomplish with this text (i.e., What is your purpose?)? How does this connect to your IMRAD research?
  • Why did you choose the media that you did to fulfill your purpose for the audience you chose? How will you deliver this text to your audience?

Take ten minutes to answer these questions.

Activity I: Peer Reviewing the Research Remix

Each of you will be put into groups of three.

  • Switch places with your peers.
  • Consult the criteria for the Research Remix.
  • Read her/his freewrite and then experience her/his remix text.
  • Make notes about what you think the writer has done well (again, especially in terms of the assignment description) and what you think your peer would benefit from thinking more about. Again respond to this in terms of both the criteria and what you value in a text. Remember, you are an audience member of this text, so if something is not clear to you, the author should know this.
  • Write a 300-500 word email addressed to the writer and cc'ed to the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu) in which you explain your experience with her/his text–what you liked and why you liked it, as well as what you think s/he should revise and why. Point to specific passages to help your audiene locate what you are talking about and to also see the point you are trying to make.

You should have time to review the work of both of the peers in your group. This is due by the end of class.

Activity II: Finishing up the class

If there is time left at the end of class, work on revising your Research Remix or composing your Rhetorical Reflection.