This page collects teaching ideas and examples related to the peer review tool available for instructors at UNC, Chapel Hill. For information about downloading this and other tools see the CITE Instructional Tool Distribution Page. For an opportunity to experiment with this tool, see the SITES Instructional Tool Forge.

Peer Review Examples and Ideas

The PaperReview Module provides a number of ways that participants can share and interact with one another's papers. The review prompts can be used to guide engagement with a paper. Or the paragraph by paragraph comment function can be used for general editing. Get a sense of the possibilities from the examples below
Derek Maus uses both aspects of the module and asks students to submit both drafts and revisions to show the development of papers.
 
Shannon Wooden uses a single paper to offer instruction about ways of reading and to allow students to hone their reviewing skills.
 
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