The body of the Project Paper will be developed in 4 stages—Introduction, Methods, Results, and Rough Draft. The various stages of development for the paper will submitted to the instructor on Weeks 6, 8, 11, and 13. The paper must also be submitted to a classmate serving as a peer editor. You will be assigned to a group discussion board in which you will be paired with your peer editor. You are required to attach the Project Paper: Peer-Editor Rubric for Stages 1–4 document at the end of each document received from a classmate. The grade on each section will be derived from the revised score given by the instructor after review and appropriate revision of the peer-editor critique.
As the peer-editor, you must use the Track Changes and Comment feature under the Review tab in Microsoft Word to show any suggested revisions to the document and to add insightful comments. The peer-editor rubric can then be completed and the paper returned to the author and submitted to the instructor one week later on Weeks 7, 9, 12, and 14 respectively. Peer-editors will be graded by the instructor according to the quality of the edits, critique, and scores they provide as a the peer-editor grade for the assignment. Each stage of the Project Paper should be critiqued by a different student peer-reviewer within your designated group Discussion Board Forum.
The final version of the paper will be submitted only to the instructor via the link on Blackboard.