Erin Workman
Writing Assessment and Response
in the Age of Digital Technologies
Assignment 1: Collaborative Source-Based Multi-Genre and Multi-Media Project
For Assignment 1, students work in small groups to research a key term of their choosing. Students collaboratively compose an annotated bibliography of sources they consult to learn about their key term, and then they remediate that work in a new genre and medium.
To the right you can see two students' remediation of their annotated bibliography on "genre," which featured articles by Kerry Dirk, Jacques Derrida, Gloria Anzaldua, Amy Devitt, and David Foster Wallace.
Response
Students received three different types of response to their first assignments:
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Structured Peer Review of Annotated Bibliography & Remediation Projects
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Descriptive Marginal and End-note comments from me on the annotated bibliography
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Descriptive and Evaluative letter from me on the remediation project
Peer Review
Peer review was guided by questions focused on three points: clear and concise summary of source texts, careful analysis of source texts, and reflective synthesis of tensions between source texts.
Teacher Comments
My comments on the annotated bibliography described the content knowledge I saw students articulating, the questions and concerns I saw them raising in their analyses, and their synthesis of source texts.
My letters had two purposes: to articulate for students my experiences as a viewer of their remediations, and to evaluate the appropriateness of their choices based on the rhetorical situations they described for their work. (Example linked above.)