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No One Writes Alone: Peer Review in the Classroom - A Guide For Students | MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing | YouTubeToText
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[Music]
I feel like you have a lot of analysis,
but like you don't really it's not like
connecting. You don't really know what
it's like going towards. I would
actually just cut this entire section
right here. Do you feel that I should
probably address the issue of purpose in
my actual thesis statement? When we
think about peer review, it's useful
actually to have a sense of how central
it is. There's kind of peer review that
happens in the classroom where peers,
students, other people just like you are
looking at your work and you're looking
at theirs. Now, on a professional level,
that person might be a peer. It might be
somebody you've never met. You might be
the pre-minent scholar in your field and
your peer might be somebody quite
junior. Peer itself, just that term is
very open-ended. It's basically anybody
else engaged in the same project you're
engaged in. trying to understand these
basic questions of the discipline.
There's always a need to have somebody
else tell you where you're going off
course. Nobody writes alone. Nobody
finishes work alone. Peer review is
really the feedback mechanism about the
quality of our ideas and how well we
communicate them. And that's really how
[Music]
The response to one's work in whatever
form it takes is always crucial. So you
want to know simply if people like your
work, but you also really want to get,
you know, a qualitative understanding of
whether or not your work is doing what
you intended to do and whether it's
satisfying some requirement of your
audience. I wasn't taught how to do peer
review. It can be a very mysterious
process and certainly a scary one. Uh
which is why we need to talk more about
um how it's done and what it involves.
It's very hard to understand the process
until you've done both sides, till
you've actually done the reviewing and
as well as received the reviewing. I've
talked to all of you, I think, in
conference now on this paper. So, you've
gotten my feedback. And today's peer
review is for you to share feedback with
each other. The students in my class
working on each other's drafts. What
they were doing was really helping the
writers produce these ideas to their
best possible level. I just thought you
could probably combine the first two
paragraphs. Like I know what you're
trying to get at, but I feel like you
took too much, like too long to explain
it. If you're a student beginning the
process of peer review and you're
uncertain about what you might say to
somebody, I think one thing to remember
is that what you're really doing is
providing the experience of a reader. If
you keep that in mind, you can't really
go wrong. I really like this. It was
personal, but it wasn't too personal
that it would it would feel like you
were talking about yourself or you. I
tell students that they get to say, "I
liked it only once per class." They have
to understand that there are
collaborators here and that, you know,
it's important to notice what's good in
a work, but you have to be focused and
specific. This section here, I might
edit to be a little less inflammatory.
We've all had some experience with peer
review that isn't positive. Whether
that's getting reviews on our own work
or being put on the spot to say
something when we're not quite sure what
we think yet. There is a difference
between and saying this piece of writing
doesn't work and you're a bad person.
And it's incumbent of course on the
teacher to make sure that that
distinction never gets you know never
gets forgotten in the classroom. Those
mutual newspapers give the effects of
the situation in a way which creates
negativity in the reader's mind, but at
the same time the re the document itself
remains objective. When you're beginning
to give peer review, what that probably
means is you're beginning not only to
learn the process of peer review, but
you're beginning to learn the process of
understanding whatever it is that you're
reviewing. That's a perfect time to also
begin peer review. not to wait until
you're an expert, but to start at that
point where everything is new, where
you're beginning, because that's when
you have the best questions, you have
the the most capacity to recognize
features and to ask about them really
freshly. Do you think that using the
term social action to further explain
the effect that that has on the audience
would be a good inclusion in my essay?
Coming into this class, I had the notion
that if I dedicated more and more time
by myself to a certain essay that that
was going to perfect it. But, you know,
really just one word or one sentence
from someone else can open up
possibilities for me that I would never
have realized no matter how long I spent.
Because it's a professional requirement.
peer review can seem like a a mechanical
exercise, but my experience more and
more has been that it's a tremendously
creative um endeavor and and done well
is as important to the intellectual
process of the work. It's the one place
where the author's work becomes truly
collaborative. It's central and it
permeates everything we do in academia.
It gives me that both those seemingly
strong men in some sense, right? So, I
just wanted to have some sense of how
you people think about how you respond
to that. It helps us get better at all
the other acts we perform in academia.
It helps us get better at learning the
methods, at creating ideas. Peer review
keeps us on our toes. It uh complicates
and enriches our thinking. And you know,
it's the best possible thing in the
world to have a smart person really
looking at your work with that depth and
regard such that if you listen to what
they say and work with it, you you and
your work become better. my writing
isn't the best and I know that and when
people point it out to me it's always
surprising and today they actually
showed me how I could actually fix my
essay which was quite constructive and
hopefully when I go back and look over
my essay I'll be able to fix those
errors which will otherwise make my
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