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Week 5: Day 1

Peer Review

  • Does your partner put two articles in conversation with one another?
  • Does the synthesis paragraph describe how the articles are similar? What examples do they use?
  • Does the synthesis paragraph describe how they are different? What examples do they use?
  • Does the synthesis incorporate personal opinion? Attributive tags? Quotes?
  • Does the synthesis list all of the similarities or differences?
  • Is enough context provided?
  • Is it organized and coherent?
  • What is working in this synthesis? What is not?

Objective

Peer Review Cont'd

Now, Let's Review an Example

  • Review Unit 2 Readings

  • Look at Examples of Summary and Synthesis

  • Get into Peer Review Groups
  • Does this summary include context info?
  • Who is the author? Name of the article? Where does the work appear? When was it written? The audience?

  • Does this summary describe the argument of the article?
  • The main claims of the article

  • Does the paragraph use attributive tags?
  • Does the summary describe the organization of the article?
  • Does the summary include too much quotations? Paraphrase too much?Why?
  • Does the summary discuss counter-arguments that are used?
  • Does it discuss how the article begins and ends?
  • What are two things that are working? What is not?
  • Does this example follow the minimum guidelines?

  • What is working? What is not?

  • How does this rhetor place the articles in conversation with one another?

  • Does the author give enough context?

Unit 2 Readings

What's Next?

  • Which article are you working with?
  • provide context
  • What is the thesis statement of this article?
  • Now what is the author's argument?
  • How is the article organized?
  • What examples are used in this text?
  • Are there counter-arguments?
  • How does the article conclude?
  • Due: Final Draft of Summary & Synthesis Essay with Writer’s Memo (in Blackboard)

  • Read: Textbook, Chapter 5: “Everything Is an Argument” (pp. 55-75)
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