Bridging Genres through Cross-Disciplinary Peer Review

This presentation will introduce participants to a form of peer review that can be used across disciplines to help writers and responders grow in a variety of genres at once.  This peer review practice is easy enough for teenagers to master quickly, even as it facilitates intensive student growth as critical readers and writers.  Dr. Nora has used this method for over ten years with success.  College freshmen have credited this assignment for helping them grow as writers as well as develop into a community.  It even has helped students publish in their various fields of interest.  

Participants in this workshop are invited to bring copies of a page or two (single spaced) of their writing.  This can be an excerpt from a larger piece. The number of copies will be specified once all workshop participants are finalized.  To make sure no one feels pressured, if no one volunteers to bring writing samples, alternate writing samples will be provided.  Dr. Nora will introduce the peer review methods to be used and then we will practice peer review with two or three examples of different disciplinary genres.  Afterward, we will reflect on the strengths and possible limitations of this method of peer review.