Peer Review Activity

When your essay is finished, you will be part of an activity called Peer Review. In this activity, as a student, you are going to assume two different roles which are explained in this page. Keep in mind, that all the students must assume these roles, thus if any of the students do not attend the classes in which this activity is going to take place, s/he is going to receive a punishment reflected on the final mark of this activity.

Reviewer
As the reviewer, you are expected to make comments about the texts you read. The main tasks you have to complete are the following:
 * To keep track of the notes about what you want to point out to the writers (authors of the essays) use the Reviewers' Form.
 * If the system to make your comments is offline or if you prefer to draft your feedback using pen and paper, you can use the following handout.
 * When you finish, you must submit your notes from the handout, as a reviewer to your respective classmates.

Writer
As the writer, you will receive feedback from your readers. As a result, you main task is to make yourself aware of the suggestions made by the reviewers. As a writer, you must be able to find:


 * The strongest and weakest parts of your text. Include why your readers felt that way.
 * The confusing parts in which, you as a writer, need to add more information so that the reader has a better understanding of the issue.
 * The suggestions offered by the reviewers towards improving your text (content, use of research, organisation, development, transitions, etc) purpose, transitions, etc).

Submission of the corrected essay
After receiving the comments from your classmates, you will prepare your second, and final, essay taking into account the comments and suggestions from your classmates. Remember that you are free to make the changes you want from the feedback received. After you finish the second version of your essay, your teacher will contact you in order to arrange a meeting to discuss the changes that you did and did not apply to your essay.

Oral Presentation
Your final task, after the meeting with your teacher, is to prepare an oral presentation of the topic you chose using the outline of your essay which consists of: This presentation should not last more than 15 minutes, so be precise about what you are going to present. Any presentation that lasts more than 15 minutes is going to be penalized severely by a discount of points.
 * An introduction
 * Two advantages and disadvantages and
 * Conclusion.

Meeting
In this meeting, it is your responsibility to bring the following documents: It is important to notice that in this meeting, all the suggestions are going to be discuss one by one, with the author of essay and the outcome of the discussion is going to be evaluated. Additionally, the feedback of the oral presentation is given in this meeting.
 * Reviewers' suggestions from your classmates sent by your teacher via email.
 * Printed final version of your essay.