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• Peer review: how to be a good referee | Times Higher Education (THE)

  tags: academic writing guidelines publications refereeing review processes

  • academics should focus their reviewing efforts on papers in their own subfields
    • Be a true “peer”, who is helpful but firm, ¶8
  • Reviewing also allows you to see models of best practice – and of poor practice – which can improve your own publication habits
    • Be a true “peer”, who is helpful but firm, ¶9
  • Reviewing should be regarded not as a chance to lecture others but as an opportunity to learn, and to use your expertise to contribute to the growth of your field
    • Be a true “peer”, who is helpful but firm, ¶10

• A-Conscious-Craft-An-Approach-to-Teaching-Collaborative-Computer-mediated-Composition - G S O L E

  Ruth Li "presents an innovative approach to the design and integration of collaborative writing projects using the Google Apps for Education online platform (OWI 4). The setting is a traditional, face-to-face high school English classroom in which students write in class simultaneously, each on separate devices, on shared Google Docs. In particular, I offer specific strategies for teaching students to write collaboratively in a variety of creative genres, including plays, poems, narrative essays, and speeches" (Explain broadly..., ¶1).

  tags: collaboration composition creative writing English facilitation Google Docs narratives online writing instruction (OWI) pedagogy peer assessment peer review playwriting poetry revision scaffolding writing practices

  • Students’ interactions with peers throughout the collaborative composing process influence their writing practices on the micro-level in relation to patterns of word choice, as well as simultaneously enhancing the macro-level issues of meaning, tone, and structure
    • Reflection and Limitations of the Approach, ¶1
  • in a sense, the peer review process is embedded within the structure of collaborative composition on a shared document, as edits as well as oral and written meta-commentary occur and recur throughout the lifespan of a Doc
    • This approach to collaborative composition assignments manifests baked-in peer review from the get go (Reflection and Limitations of the Approach, ¶1).

• The Environment - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

  In this post and replies to it, Deubelbeiss compiled numerous files and videos "to help teach the vocabulary and concepts related to the environment" (deck, ¶1;2018.11.17).

  tags: concepts education environment global issues resources vocabulary

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