ENGL 102 Week 5-6 Discussion | Southwestern College

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ENGL 102 Week 5-6 Discussion | Southwestern College

ENGL 102  Week 5 Discussion | Southwestern College

Assignment 5.3 Peer Review Discussion Board

Description
In this assignment, you will use the revision guidelines you have used in other assignments to review a classmate’s research paper draft. In your classmate’s draft, you will evaluate the thesis and its support, the acknowledgement of counterarguments, and the tone and voice used. Your feedback is vital to your partner’s completion of this assignment.

Instructions

1. Review this unit’s required reading.

2.In the discussion forum, you will exchange the research paper draft you wrote in Assignment 5.2 with your assigned partner. Create a thread with your name in the subject line, attach your research paper draft, then post the thread.

3. Read your partner’s draft several times and then respond to the following questions about his or her essay:

• Is your classmate’s claim clearly stated and adequately qualified? Summarize the principal claims of the essay as you understand them based on your reading.
• Does he or she provide adequate evidence to support the validity of the claim? Has your classmate correctly cited and documented the sources of that evidence?
• Are any of his or her statements based on illogical reasoning? Explain.
• Based on your reading of the essay, how would you characterize the personality of the author (as its comes across in the writing)?
• What effect did the essay have on you?
• Has your classmate considered, and included, other points of view? Does his or her argument clearly prove why his or her claims are more logical, sensible, useful, or appealing than the opposition’s viewpoints? Provide descriptions of where you think the essay would benefit from better transitions or supporting explanations.

4. After responding to the questions, review your partner’s essay again using the revising checklist linked below as a guide. Note any additional suggestions you have.

Revising Checklist

5. If you’d like to suggest changes or correct mistakes in the essay itself, use the Track Changes and Comments tools in your word processing program.
6. Return your partner’s paper and receive yours with his or her comments.
7. Save and submit your work to your instructor.

Writing Requirements

• Your responses to the review questions should be a minimum of 350 words.
• Your document must be double-spaced using a 12-point font with 1-inch margins and include your name at the top of the first page.
• Proofread your document to eliminate mechanical and grammatical errors.

Participation Requirements:

Consult the grading rubric in the Faculty & Course Info section for the grading criteria.

Original discussion board posts:

• Create a thread for your original post identified with your name
• Attach your thesis statement and outline document to the thread, then post.

ENGL 102 Week 5-6 Discussion | Southwestern College

ENGL 102  Week 6 Discussion | Southwestern College

Assignment 6.2: Discussion (Deliverable: Discussion post)

Description

For this assignment, you will compare published articles in a journal to evaluate the format and parts of published pieces of writing. This activity will help you determine how essays in a field of interest to you are structured.

Instructions

1. Collect at least three articles from the same scholarly journal or from more than one journal in the same field (medicine, economics, history, etc.).
2. Read and analyze the journal articles and consider whether there is an underlying format or organizational pattern in the articles. Consider these questions as you compare the articles:

• What does the article include at its beginning?
• What does the article include at its end?
• Are research methods or opposing arguments described in approximately the same place?

3. In a post to the Discussion Board, list your articles and describe the parts that each of the articles includes.
4. Be sure to read others’ posts and respond to at least two posts by comparing and contrasting the regular elements and patterns that you discovered in your research with what your peer found.

Writing Requirements

• Your initial post should be around 200 words, and responses should each be about 100 words, but don’t hesitate to write more if your comparisons of these article sets would benefit from additional detail.
• Please be sure to treat the discussion forums with the same academic approach as you would a written assignment. This applies to your initial response as well as peer responses and follow-up.

Participation Requirements:

Consult the grading rubric in the Faculty & Course Info section for the grading criteria.

Original discussion board posts:

• Create a thread for your original post identified with your name.
• 200 words long with proper punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.

Responses to discussion board posts:

• Respond to two peers, minimum (you are expected to continue to engage with peers/instructor beyond these two responses)