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Engaging Peer Response in First-year Composition: Writers, Readers, and Rapport

McKeehen, Shannon R
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1618484899241983

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2021, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Peer review’s relationship with revision remains under-explored, and it is worth investigating how revision skills are developed or polished during peer review conversations among a variety of first-year college students. Early research on reviewing practices centered on the nature of revisions made by novice and experienced writers, without looking closely at the conversations occurring between peers. Thus, my dissertation investigates ongoing interactions among student writers and how revision practices and advice mediate their relationships with their peers. Studying various writer relationships with regards to student texts will seek to help composition instructors become better-equipped to address a myriad of academic writing concerns, as students indeed care about their grades in their writing courses, but they also want to engage competently—and compassionately—with one another and each other’s work. This dissertation work posits that students who participate in regular peer review would like the opportunity to share about their experiences and whether these experiences aid or hinder the solidarity they feel for one another. Interviewing students during the course of a semester, reporting on how their perspectives change over time, and sharing the findings with the field will help practitioners refine their peer review assignments and make their objectives clearer to concerned students. This project will also make plain the need for centering student voices as a means for transparent composition pedagogy.
Brian Huot (Advisor)
138 p.
Composition; Education; Teaching
peer review, composition, qualitative, interviews, student writing

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  • McKeehen, S. R. (2021). Engaging Peer Response in First-year Composition: Writers, Readers, and Rapport [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1618484899241983

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McKeehen, Shannon. Engaging Peer Response in First-year Composition: Writers, Readers, and Rapport. 2021. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1618484899241983.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McKeehen, Shannon. "Engaging Peer Response in First-year Composition: Writers, Readers, and Rapport." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1618484899241983

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