Student Conference: Peer Reviewing, fall 2014
What are Peer Review Groups?
Peer review groups are provided to support you in writing your
paper. During the group meetings you will present, discuss, and solve
specific writing/presentation problems in collaboration with your
fellow students (the "peers"). Separate groups will be established for
different research areas.
Why Do we Have Peer Review Groups?
Your peers quite often have problems very similar to your own. It is
therefore quite helpful to see what they have done, as well as to
discuss problems and ideas with them. You can "test," if your writing
is understandable and the message of your paper reaches the readers.
How Do Peer Review Groups Work?
A peer review group can only work, if all its members are willing to
collaborate. Collaboration means that you have to
- inform, i.e. make available your work-in-progress to your peers,
- be informed, i.e. read the work-in-progress of your peers from time to time, and
most importantly
- attend your group's review meetings.
The meetings follow two simple rules to assure that all group
members get a maximum out of the meeting.
- Positive Feedback First
- Constructive Feedback
Your supervisor acts as the moderator of the meeting and makes sure
that the rules are obeyed. Please note that the peer review group
supervisors' job is to guide you in the writing/research process
and NOT to teach you the research area chosen.
During the meeting all group members will take their turn according to
the following steps/phases:
- Presentation
You present (parts of) your work-in-progress, a specific
writing/presentation problem, and/or an idea.
- Questions
Your peers can ask questions to support their understanding of
your presentation.
- Presenter leaves room
You leave the room for a short period of time.
- Comments/suggestions
Your peers comment on your presentation and discuss suggestions
for improvements.
- Presenter enters room again
You join your peers.
- Moderator summarises the group's discussion
- Discussion
You can now ask for clarifications and discuss specific details
of the comments and suggestions that will help you to improve
your paper.
Make sure to take notes. If you cannot explain to your peers what you
mean (i.e. have written) it is very likely that others won't
understand either.
Our peer review group meetings are down-scaled versions of so-called
Writer's Workshops.
Group Administration
The first meeting should take place before
the deadline for deliverable two (extended abstract, annotated
bibliography, and planning).
Each group member has the responsibility to make available to the
group the latest version of his/her paper in good time before a
meeting.
We recommend to keep old versions of your papers as well as the
comments you received.
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