WA02 - Blog Post Peer Reviews

In this assignment you will participate in a double anonymous peer review, giving feedback to your classmates on the draft of their blog posts and receiving receive feedback from them on yours.

Assignment

To complete this assignment:

1. Review the WA01-BlogPostDraft assignment to be sure that it is fresh in your memory.
2. Download The Peer Review Template and familiarize yourself with the questions that it contains. These are the questions you will be answering about each of the drafts that you read.
3. Find the COMP491/PeerReviews directory in your Dickinson WiD Repository on GitHub. This directory will contain draft blog posts from two of your classmates.
   • These files will have a name like XX-SomeTitle-draft_Redacted.pdf or YY-AnotherTitle-draft_Redacted.pdf, where XX and YY are numbers that the instructor is using to identify the drafts and your peer reviews.
4. For each of the drafts that you have been assigned:
   1. Make a copy of the template using a filename like XX-SomeTitle-PeerReview.docx or YY-AnotherTitle-PeerReview.docx, where XX-SomeTitle or YY-AnotherTitle match the blog post draft that you are reviewing.
   2. Read the draft keeping the questions in The Peer Review Template in mind.
   3. Respond to each question in the template with careful, kind, honest, and constructive feedback for your classmates. Keep in mind that the goal is to help them improve their draft when they revise it into a final submission.
      • The following pages provide useful tips for giving feedback. You are encouraged to read them and apply what you learn as you complete your reviews:
        • Guidelines for Students - Peer Review (short)
        • Peer Review Guidelines (longer)
   4. Submit your peer review by:
      1. converting the template into a pdf file using the same naming convention described above.
      2. Placing the pdf document into the COMP491/PeerReviews folder in your WiD repository.

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