Explain your interpretations, problertls, questions, and advice.
You want to avoid just critiquing something they write and not giving them any explanation for it.
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Even when you're tough and demanding you can still be suppm1ive.
As a peer reviewer, you want to be supportive in the way that you aren't harsh... but you also want to give them your honest thought to help them make it their best work.
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Address issues that are most important
This is important to focus in one issue in the writer's work that way you can explain it well and the writer can hone in on it.
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be sure to point to places in the writing where the writer uses detail effectively or where she might provide richer detail.
This is definitely a good thing to note in our current literacy narrative assignment.
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You're there to play back to the writer how you read the paper: what you got from it;
This is important to not rewrite the writer's paper, but to let them know what message they're sending as well. That way the author knows how their message is getting across and if they need to adjust things so the reader can either relate better or understanding the purpose, etc.
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don't lead them to think that all is fine and well when it's not.
This is a very important thing to note. You may be thinking you are being supportive, but it is counterproductive to let the writer believe that everything is just perfect when it isn't. It will end up doing more harm than good, so it is better to be constructive with criticism.
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accounts.smccd.edu accounts.smccd.edu
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the night guards paced past every room. Each time I heard the approaching footsteps, I jumped into bed and feigned sleep. And as soon as the guard passed, I got back out of bed onto the floor area of that light-glow, where I would read for another fifty-eight minutes—until the guard approached again.
Each detail that is presented allows the reader to jump into the author's shoes, imagining themselves in this memory of his.
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my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned
Reading became a powerful escape for him
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devour literature as I did
"Devour" is a deliberate word choice that enhances the meaning of literature to the author.
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