Revisions & Peer Review

What is revision?

• Writing a paper for the first time

• Changing and reorganizing your first draft

• Giving a classmate suggestions to improve their paper

• Asking the teacher for help

Why do we do revisions on our writing?

• It helps us organize our ideas

• It lets us see what is missing to add

• It makes the paper better by changing things

• It is faster

What is peer review?

• Writing a second draft of a paper

• Reading a paper again

• Getting constructive feedback from someone else on your writing

• Getting comments from the teacher on your paper

What is the acronym you can use to help revise your paper?

• COPS

• SWBST

• Peer review

• ARMS

What does the R in ARMS stand for?

• Remove

• Revise

• Resubmit

• Rewrite

What is one kind of feedback you want to give during peer review?

• Tell them the paper was terrible

• Give a suggestion for how to make something better

• Say everything is great!

• People don't need any feedback to improve their writing

What does it mean that peer review comments and feedback should be constructive?

• That all the comments should be positive

• That all the comments should be only one sentence

• That all the comments should be helpful and something the person can do to improve their paper

• That all the comments should come from the teacher

True or False: Revising is focusing on the small details like grammar and spelling, while editing focuses on the overall organization and ideas of the paper.

• True

• False

True or False: You should never ask the author of the paper questions during the peer review process.

• True

• False

True or False: Revisions are always about adding information to your paper.

• True

• False