Do instructors use student peer-review writing workshops in writing courses?
Yes, most instructors have students engage in some kind of peer-review writing workshops at several points during the semester. Students who can identify and respond well to the writing of other become better writers themselves as well as provide useful responses to their peers’ drafts. Instructors use peer-review workshops for a variety of purposes in the semester, from brainstorming ideas, to developing focuses for essays, to responding to drafts, to final editing. There are many different ways to approach peer-review workshops as well which you will talk about in English 602 or that you can ask colleagues or ADCs about. There are also ideas in books in the Bonnie Endowment Library.
