Alexander, Kara Poe. ”More About Reading, Responding, and Revising: The Three Rs of Peer Review and Revision.” Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe. Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. New Jersey: Hampton Press, 2007. 113-131.
Reading and Thinking
"Students using technologies come to professional writing courses, and to the collaborative teams within those courses, with varying levels a technological literacy, a term that refers, not just to functional competence with computers, but also to practices and values involved in reading, writing, and communicating in electronic spaces." This quote stands out because of the importance of understanding technology and writing and what it entails.
Peer Reviews are important especially in freshman composition. If teachers are commenting on texts to encourage revision, then the comments need to provide students with reasons for revising the structure and meaning of their texts. Conflicting comments break the processes of revising, editing, and proofreading and, as a result, students may mistakenly think of the revision process as a rewording activity. We’ve probably all read papers where students have followed every comment and have fixed their mechanical errors as requested, but where the revisions remain on the surface, but the structure and meaning of the text itself does not improve at all. It sometimes gets worse.
What a great image! Where did you find it?
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