Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Class will Start at 3:00 Today (September 26, 2012)

I'm running incredibly late today.  My sincerest apologies.  Our class will start promptly at 3:00 today.  I will be there earlier than 3:00 in order to help you with your paper.  If you are there early, make sure your first peer review is finished before we start class today.  While you are waiting, exchange papers with someone else and begin your second peer review.  Both peer reviews are due when your paper is due on Monday.

Step for Peer Review 2:

1. Exchange papers with someone else.  Number each paragraph of their paper.


2. On a separate sheet of paper, draw a line down the middle


3. Based on the number of paragraphs, draw a row for each of their paragraphs.  Leave a few lines in between.  Then write the number of the paragraph to the left of the appropriate row.

4. In the first box of the row, students DESCRIBE the substance of the paragraph in question—for instance that the paragraph provides support for the second reason given in support of the claim.

In the second box of the row, students EXPLAIN HOW the substance of the paragraph is accomplished or achieved—for instance, the first paragraph that provides support for the second reason does so through an illustration using personal evidence.

Go through the whole essay and DESCRIBE/EXPLAIN HOW.

5. After analyzing the essay using this format, now you are are ready to provide constructive feedback to your partner.  They can plainly see what they’ve got so far in a paper and can often more clearly also see what is missing.

A One-Paragraph Example
   Para #                  DESCRIBE                                      EXPLAIN HOW

Para 5
Here the writer provides support for her second reason in support of her claim that schooling does more harm than good, saying it robs people of simple joys. She talks about the loss of her innocent love of storytelling.
The support illustrates personal experience from the writer’s life.  She describes her love of family stories before she learned to call such stories “anthropology.” Now she finds she can’t hear a family story without thinking about what the story reflects about her culture.

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