Before you leave your seat, open your essay and save a copy in the Google Drive using the following steps:
- From within your drive structure, right click on title of clean, revised essay copy prepared for class.
- Select "make a copy" from the menu options.
- Open this copy and close all other versions of the essay.
- Change essay name to "essay1_peerreview."
- Read through the rubric.
- Read through the essay once in its entirety without making changes or comments.
- Using the "suggesting" mode and "comment" tools in the Google Doc, interact with the document, making at least two comments per paragraph. Feel free to also make comments on grammar and style issues, remembering to be both thorough and constructive.
- Switch seats with your revision partner and make minor comments as necessary.
- Discuss with your revision partner the two papers you have read, coming to a consensus on how you would evaluate them by applying the standards of the rubric.
- Mark and comment on the rubric to reflect this consensus.
- On the back of the rubric, write two positive comments (what the author has done well) and two "needs improvement" comments. Remember in both of these to craft your language carefully and to justify your input by using a "because" statement. The point here is not to belittle your peer but to guide him or her in the revision of the essay for the final draft.
- Put your name and the date on the top of the two rubrics you collaborated on.
- Return to the middle of the room once you have finished the peer review.
