Peer Response Guidelines

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Peer Response Guidelines[1]

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Response groups are emphatically not edit groups.  Peter Elbow distinguishes between criterion-based feedback and reader-based feedback: the former is text-centered, evaluating content, organization, diction, mechanics, and so forth; the latter is reader-centered, recording personal reactions rather than judging.  A guide for peer response groups might include directions such as the following.

1. Read the first one or two paragraphs of the draft and stop.
·      What has the writer told you so far?
·      Based on what you’ve read so far, what do you expect the rest of the essay to tell you?
·      What’s your emotional response to the writing so far: interest? sympathy? boredom? anger?
·      What do you wish the writer would do next?

2. Read about halfway through the paper and stop again.
·      Describe, in as much detail as possible, what has been going through your mind as you read.
·      Point out sentences or passages that you especially liked as well as those that confused or annoyed you.
·      What do you expect in the second half of the essay?  What do you want the writer to do?

3. After reading the entire paper, follow the steps below.
·      Briefly summarize the essay as if you were describing it to a friend.
·      Has your reaction to the paper changed?  How?
·      What questions would you like to ask the writer?
·      What impression of the writer do you get from the way she or he ends the paper?
·      What metaphor or image would you use to describe the essay (or the writer)?



[1] Peer response guidelines are adapted from Peter Elbow, Writing with Power [New York: Oxford University Press, 1981], pp. 255-263. 

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