Peer Review: Capturing Your UTA Experience in Your Personal Statement

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AssignmentPeer Review: Capturing Your UTA Experience (Personal Statement)

Purpose 

Providing peer review is your opportunity to critique and provide feedback to your fellow classmates. This process can help them to improve their work and give them some perspective on what others valued or thought worked well. Conducting peer reviews may help generate ideas for how to improve your work, so peer reviewers are likely to benefit from the process as well.

Directions

  1. This peer review is anonymous. You must complete the peer review to earn credit for your submission of the "Capturing Your UTA Experience in Your Personal Statement" assignment.
  2. Read the submission assigned to you for peer review carefully in preparation for your written comments. You will want to be sure that you provide a review that is thoughtful, respectful, and specific/descriptive.
  3. Identify issues with grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling/typographical errors, and make recommendations to rectify these issues.
  4. Identify specific examples of what they did well (strengths) and what they could do to improve their submission (improvements). 
  5. Describe your overall impression of the content. Is the content compelling? Does it adequately convey qualities/strengths/activities/accomplishments likely to be valued by others? 
  6. Use "track changes" and comment boxes in Word when conducting your review. You also can type additional comments on the student's assignment, but please use "track changes" so that what you wrote is obvious.
  7. Submit your review online in Webcourses.

Grading

To earn full points for your peer review, you are expected to:

  • provide meaningful feedback that includes at least one example of a specific strength or area for improvement.
  • explain your rationale for the strengths and improvements you identified.
  • correct issues that you spot related to sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, and/or sentence components. (Note: I do not expect you to be an expert in grammar or composition, but if you notice issues, please make note of them.)
  • provide an overall reaction to what you read (i.e., did it catch your attention? sound ho-hum? etc.).
  • present your feedback in a positive and constructive manner.

Peer reviews that do not meet the criteria listed above will be docked an appropriate number of points.

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