6-2 Peer Workshop Discussion: Drafting Challenges and Feedback

Providing and receiving feedback often means exploring opinions and ideas different from your own. Remember to remain thoughtful and respectful toward your peers and instructor in your peer workshop post and replies.

Create one initial post and provide feedback to at least two of your peers.

For your initial post, address the following:

1. Compose your thesis statement and audience.
2. List two challenges you faced when writing your first draft.
3. Share one paragraph from your essay draft that you would like the most help with. Be certain to identify which essay paragraph, such as the introduction or the first body paragraph, it is. Also, include a brief explanation about what feedback would be most helpful for you.

In addition, follow these instructions:

• Complete your initial post by Thursday at 11:59 p.m. of your local time zone.

For your response posts, address the following:

1. Provide feedback or advice for your peers’ identified writing challenge. Use details and examples from course resources and your instructor’s feedback on previous assignments to support your advice.
2. As you craft your advice, consider answering some of the following questions:
   1. What might help your peers overcome the challenges that they faced?
   2. Share one piece of feedback for each peer about the paragraphs that your classmates shared and what might be improved, based on their feedback requests.

In addition, follow these instructions:

• Provide constructive feedback to at least two peers outside of your own initial post thread. Try to select peers who have not received any feedback.
• Remember that you are providing feedback on a draft of your peers’ work. Do not comment on grammar or mechanics, such as spelling. Instead, focus your feedback on the areas listed in the guidelines for the response posts.
• Remember that you are part of a learning community where you can reach out to your classmates with any questions you have about their feedback on your post.
• Complete your response posts by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. of your local time zone.