Q *Flash Narrative First Draft and Peer Review* 1616 unread replies.3030 replies. [LITERATE PRACTICES AND PROCESSES]—Meaningful writing is achieved through sustained engagement in literate practices (e.g., thinking, researching, reading, interpreting, conversing) and through revision. This discussion includes two assignments. Week 3: Post your Flash Narrative draft. Week 4: Give two peer reviews. Instructions are found at the bottom of the page. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assignment #1: Post Your Flash Narrative Draft -- Week 3 Post your Flash Narrative draft to the discussion board. If needed, review the Flash Narrative assignment sheet. Actions If you have any specific questions or concerns about your writing, or any other areas where you would appreciate specific feedback, we encourage you to lead off your post with a short paragraph expressing to your classmates what feedback you would find particularly valuable. This will likely improve the usefulness of the feedback you receive. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assignment #2: Peer Reviews on Two Classmates' Flash Narrative Drafts -- Week 4 Complete two peer reviews. We encourage you to choose peers who are working in the same genre so you can use your improved genre awareness as a resource to guide your feedback. Use the peer review questions below to help shape your response to your classmates' writing. You may thoroughly and specifically address each of the 9 questions below as you complete your peer review AND/OR you may download the writer's text and respond with in-text annotations as you've been practicing in this unit. Whichever option you choose, be sure to address all nine questions on the peer review guide. Peer review, where peers comment on each others' writing, is a literate practice designed to give helpful, substantive feedback a writer may use to improve their writing through revision. Simultaneously, the literate practices of critically reading and responding to texts will improve your own writing abilities. And remember that peer responses are worth 40% of the grade on this assignment. Flash Narrative Peer Review Questions 1. Which specific ideas, words, phrases, or images struck you as particularly memorable and effective? 2. Which specific things struck you as confusing or needing elaboration? 3. Where does the writer use descriptions to show rather than tell? Where would more sensory description, dialogue, or detail help the reader more fully engage with the narrative? 4. As a reader, what do you want to hear more about? 5. How would you describe the organization of the narrative? Is the organization effective? 6. How would you describe the tone and voice of the narrative? Are the tone and voice appropriate given the rhetorical situation? 7. What do you see as the main idea or theme of the narrative? 8. What does this draft do especially well? 9. What two or three things would most improve the draft in revision? Be sure to include word counts at the bottom of both your draft (no more than 1000 words) and peer reviews (150).