Final Project Presentation Instructions

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Peer Review Part 1 (25 minutes)

Take turns distributing your paper among your peers (keep a copy for yourself). Read your paper out loud (mindfully of groups near you) as your peers follow along. If you’re listening, keep a pen in hand and mark any errors or strong/weak points you want to discuss further as your peer reads.

Once they are done reading, take some time discussing your immediate reactions to the draft: what you really liked, what you didn’t understand, what suggestions you have. Your peer may have specific passages they want help with, so take some time focusing on specific paragraphs as needed. If there are disagreements within the group, call me over so I can help give my 2 cents!

Once you’re done discussing this paper, move on to the next and so on until you’ve read through and discussed all three drafts. The group breakdown is as follows:

Group 1

• Blossom Earle
• Maya Jacob
• George Wong Heyward

Group 2

• Emely Fuentes
• Fabian Navarro
• Marion Yacoob
• Tashier Williams

Group 3

• Latanya Hewitt
• Mahira Raman
• Cameron Smith

Group 4

• Josephine Miller
• Vanessa Mo

Group 5

• Aleema Gafar
• Natalia Galarza
• Destiny McIntyre

Peer Review Part 2 (15-20 minutes)

Please take some time writing down your feedback following the questions in the handout. Please show these to your peer before handing them back to me in case they want to take a picture of the feedback for reviewing later.

If you have a computer with you and want to post these below as a comments, feel free, just make sure you write clearly which review is for which student (e.g. “Reviewing Student X”)

1. What does the paper or project seem to argue, as you understand it? Does the argument clearly align with a specific theory? If you can’t identify the argument, what are some questions you can ask to help your peer devise or finesse their argument? 
2. Do the topic sentences for each paragraph support the thesis statement with a clear, argumentative claim? If so, which is the strongest topic sentence, and why? If not, are there ideas buried in the paragraph that could be moved to the topic sentence spot? | If you’re reviewing an unessay, does the choice of media/style seem appropriate for the argument? Do you understand what the student is designing, and how it aligns with a specific theory?
3. How does the paper or project handle the integration of academic articles as outside sources? What suggestions can you make for how to improve source integration?
4. Does the paper properly introduce quotes with the necessary context, and then analyze how the quote illustrates their argument? Point to one strong or struggling example.
5. Ask 1-2 questions that help push the student’s conclusion further into the “so-what factor” to avoid repeating the intro. E.g. How does X and Y connect in important ways? What are the consequences of what you say in paragraph 2?)
6. If you haven’t already done so above, address the issues your peer requested feedback on.