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My name is Dr. SWILUA. (Pronounced "Swill-oo-ah") That's short for "She Who Is Like Unto Aphrodite." It's my official title, thanks.

Monday, October 3, 2011

A Word on Peer Review Groups

You'll notice that today's class says "Peer Review." This is a fun day for y'all. Here are some guidelines:

1. we don't meet as a class; this guarantees there's at least one hour everyone has free for the assignment.

2. you should plan on spending about an hour, though you can certainly go longer than that.

3. you can meet wherever and whenever. as long as it's before class on Wednesday.

4. everyone should bring a draft of a paper to group.

5. you should spend your time looking at the papers and giving each other ideas for revision. similar to ICPP's, but in a smaller setting and on a smaller (possibly friendlier) scale.

As always, email me if you have questions.

27 comments:

  1. yay. i need some good opinions. i am literally bleeding statistics out of my ears, so I'm finding it hard to step back and analyze my work since I have been so steeped in it.

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  2. Good stuff! It's nice to be able to get so much feedback on papers. It really helps!

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  3. Sounds great! sometimes its good to meet somewhere other than the library too, so you can discuss papers without feeling like the noisiest people on the floor.
    -Alysha Carroll

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  4. I have to be slightly skeptical about Rosalind's claim of literally bleeding statistics out of her ears, but maybe that's unwarranted. I don't know.
    An hour was not really enough to get very far in depth about the papers, but that was all that we had because of scheduling.

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  5. This activity would have been great if my group would have actually showed up for it.

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  6. The small-group setting was good for us; we got some good editing in. I like that we're assigned to the same groups all semester; I'm getting to know these people better and they're also proving to be a good resource for the class.

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  7. The small group was good, but we were only able to get through one persons paper. I think it help everyone else though because we could see were good and bad aspects of the paper

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  8. This was nice. I never realized how helpful peer review is

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  9. Yeah, same here. I am usually not a fan of letting others read my writing, but it is helpful.

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  10. Wow, I could use a peer edit right about now.

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  11. I love working with my group! It really helps having someone to help you out!

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  12. My peer review group was a life saver!

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  13. I love my peer group :)

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  14. Sounds good! This was really helpful.

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  15. This was an effective approach to editing for my group - once. Perhaps that in just because we were often unprepared. If only we would have started our papers sooner...

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  16. Thanks for putting us in peer review groups. I really loved my group, and they were helpful and fun to work with this semester!

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  17. I couldn't have survived this semester without my peer review group

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  18. "I feel like... I don't want this candy anymore because I can't... bite it..."

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  19. I didn't love the whole peer group idea, but maybe I just had a bad group.

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  20. I love my peer review group (:

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  21. Me too! Especially lately when I have problemos with my wikipedia and need someone to vent to!

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  22. Me too! Especially when I have problemos with my wikipedia page and need someone to vent to. :)

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  23. I love peer review groups! THey have helped so so much!

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  24. Yay for peer review groups

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  25. Alwuaez, Mah peer groop haz helped me tonz with riting things real real good. Thank yu all.

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  26. it was definitely helpful to have peer review groups to work with. the insight the provided was much appreciated and much needed.

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  27. Peer Review groups are the best!!!

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