Cultural Interview and Active Listening Assignment

Peer Review Process

I require everyone to have a peer reviewer for your draft. Why? Because it's always good to have someone else read your paper. You have a choice: you can ask someone in the class to read your paper, or someone outside of class whom you know is a good thinker/writer. Your peer reviewer is not to rewrite your paper in any way. Remember, this is your learning experience. Your voice.

Instead, the responsibility of your peer reviewer is to respond to the following questions listed below. Your thoughts about what you learned from your peer reviewer are due at the same time as your draft.

Peer Writing Feedback

Writer_____________________________ Reviewer_________________________

Review Protocol:

If you are meeting in person, read your paper aloud. You’ll be surprised what reading your paper out loud does for a draft.

Peer Reviewer: Use the feedback questions below to guide you

Peer Reviewer: Return the draft to the writer with your comments.

What is your first impression of this draft?

Does the draft have all of three of the required elements?

Overview?

Intercultural Analysis?

Personal Reflection?

Does the paper have cohesion? (Does it all hang together or do you experience it as disjointed?) If the paper needs tightening, what suggestions do you have?

Do you see any clear connections to our cultural competency rubric that we are using in this class? If so, where?

Cultural self awareness? (knowledge)

Empathy? (skill)

Curiosity? (attitude)

Openness? (attitude)

Knowledge of cultural worldview? (knowledge)

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication? (skill)

What suggestions for change would you make in order to make the draft stronger, clearer, or more developed?

What about the mechanics of spelling, vocabulary and punctuation? Suggestions for changes?