WAC: Effective Peer Review in WI Courses

As a teaching practice, Peer Review is often used once and then quickly abandoned as most faculty struggle to make it work. If you’ve tried and failed to integrate student peer review into your Writing Intensive courses, you are certainly not alone. While ECU students receive extensive practice in their Writing Foundations courses, they still need explicit instruction to make the shift from peer review in those contexts to peer review in more discipline-specific contexts.  

In this workshop, you will learn how to engage students more effectively in peer review so that neither you nor they think it’s a waste of time. As part of the workshop, we highlight key research on teaching writing in disciplinary contexts and high-impact practices that been shown to improve peer review. Through this practice-based approach, we believe you’ll find the support you need to help students master peer review — and that means student projects that are far more engaging for you as a reader! 

Key take-aways from this workshop: 

• A set of in-class high-impact practices for focusing peer review activities and outcomes; 
• Peer review planning strategies for scaffolding student learning across the writing and revision process; and  
• A curated list of teaching artifacts from ECU faculty from writing classrooms across campus. 

Because this workshop is self-paced, you can sign up anytime by joining the following Canvas course: https://ecu.instructure.com/enroll/Y7RAMD

As always, if you have any questions about the University Writing Program or you need specific help with some aspect of teaching or assessing writing in your course, reach out to Dr. Kerri Flinchbaugh (flinchbaughk@ecu.edu), assistant director of the University Writing Program.