PEER REVISION ASSIGNMENT...also emailed to you.

Hi again,

I emailed this to you, but I thought I would also place it here for your enjoyment...

We have one component of 305 that involves peer revision.

Here is what you do with the rough draft of your Tipping Point assignment. The assignment says that the rough draft of the Tipping Point assignment is due on June 1^st. Here is what to do with that rough draft.

I will number the steps so that you can simply go step by step:

STEP 1. By midnight on June 1, you need to send your essay to one other person in class. (that email will be sent to you shortly)

STEP 2. REVISE THE ESSAY THAT YOUR CLASSMATE SENDS YOU, writing out your thoughts on his or her document. In a sense, this should be a simple dialogue where you, as the reviser, give the author a sense of how to improve the essay. You may also want to follow these questions to revise:

Does the introduction engage you as the reader? Do you want to read more? How could the author improve on the introduction?

Is each paragraph clear and coherent?

Does everything in your paper support your thesis, or have you gone off the topic?

Are there good details that support your ideas?

Have you made clear how the details are connected to a generalization? If not, connect them.

Do all of the ideas in the paper make sense? Are there unclear or confusing ideas or sentences?

STEP 3. By midnight on Monday, June 3, you must email the heavily revised version of your classmate’s paper back to the author AND TO ME. To do this, simply reply to the original email from your classmate and add my name to a cc: bschmoll@csub.edu.

REMEMBER, this is a graded revision, so I will be judging the quality and quantity of your comments on your classmate’s essay.

STEP 4. By Friday, June 7, upload your final draft to turnitin.com. You should incorporate any of the ideas that you think help you to improve your paper. You do not have to incorporate every idea…you are the all-powerful author and must decide what to include. Remember, this last paper should not include any simple mistakes. If you worry about commas or run ons, bring me a draft next week and we can revise and edit it together.

…and that is it. With that we are done with this class.

Let me know if you have questions. Otherwise, expect a separate email in which I tell you whose paper you will be revising.