4-2 Peer Workshop Discussion:
Providing and receiving feedback often means exploring opinions and ideas different from your own. Remember to remain thoughtful and respectful toward your peers and instructor in your peer workshop post and replies.
Create one initial post and provide feedback to at least two of your peers.
For your initial post, address the following:
- Share your full outline for the draft of your essay.
- Using the Module Four Persuasive Essay Outline Template found in module resources, write an outline of your essay. Then, copy and paste that outline into the body of your initial post.
- While you are not required to use the exact sentence structure from the template, please retain the headers in the template.
In addition, follow these instructions:
- Complete your initial post by Thursday at 11:59 p.m. of your local time zone.
For your response posts, address the following:
Read through your peers’ posts carefully and provide feedback on these areas:
- How does their thesis statement make a claim? Is their claim arguable and researchable?
- In your own words, restate what you believe your peer’s thesis to be, and identify the key points that support the thesis. Do the key points directly support the thesis or move in another direction? Offer suggestions for how the key points could tie more tightly to the thesis.
- What are the objections to your peer’s claim that they will need to address in their persuasive essay? If there are no objections, what is a claim that would have valid objections?
- Does the evidence for each body paragraph clearly support the key point of the paragraph? How might your peer indicate a stronger connection between the key point of the paragraph and the evidence?
In addition, follow these instructions:
- Provide constructive feedback to at least two peers outside of your own initial post thread. Try to select peers who have not received any feedback.
- Though you will not be graded on this, you are encouraged to respond to the peers who respond to your initial post.
- Remember that you are providing feedback on a draft of your peers’ work. Do not comment on mechanics such as spelling, grammar, or the correctness of citations. Instead, focus your feedback on the areas listed in the guidelines for the response posts.
- Remember that you are part of a learning community where you can reach out to your classmates with any questions you have about their feedback on your post.
- Complete your response posts by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. of your local time zone.
Remember, this assignment is graded on the quality of your initial post and at least two response posts to your peers. If you refer to any resources, be sure to include an attribution to the resource.
To complete this assignment, review the Module Four Peer Workshop Guidelines and Rubric.
