Feedback, Critique, and Peer Review
This week’s reading (Writing Commons: CritiqueLinks to an external site.) identifies a number of different kinds of critique, feedback, and peer review. These include:
Formative Feedback
Summative Feedback
Global Critique
Local Critique
The Side Note
Rubric-based feedback
Endnotes
Line-by-Line Editing
Familiarize yourself with these different forms of critique and respond to the following questions:
Which of these critique forms do you find most valuable to receive, either from peers or your professors? Why?
Which of these forms are easiest and which are most challenging for you to provide to others? Explain your answer.
Finally, the reading makes this point: “Feedback is deeply rhetorical.”
What does this mean?
What is the risk of feedback that is not rhetorical
Here is an additional resource to review to support this week’s assignment and discussion posts:
“Feedback is an integral part of any writing process. Writers don’t write in a vacuum, especially in academic and professional contexts, where evaluation, review, and use of written work usually requires a number of people to be involved in the final product. Most students are familiar with peer review; similarly, scholarly articles are usually considered more trustworthy when they are double-blind peer reviewed, and writers in many workplaces usually get at least one colleague or boss’s input.
The pages in this resource address providing, interpreting, and writing with feedback from a number of perspectives and in a variety of settings. The goal of this resource is to help writers of all types (student, teacher, scholar, practitioner, etc.) give useful feedback, understand and analyze feedback they’re given, and then use that feedback to improve their writing”: Writing with Feedback Resource Overview – Purdue OWL® – Purdue University
