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
- 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)