Teaching Resources: Peer Response

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Peer Response

 

  

Process Goals

The use of response groups is a key concept in all Writing Program courses. It is through this process of students’ responding to one another's writing that they become careful readers and analysts of writing, learn terminology to discuss writing, and recognize that some of the strategies they suggest to their peers can be employed to improve their own texts. Response is also the primary impetus that inspires students to revise; learning how to make meaningful global revisions to their texts is another primary goal in our courses.

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