P2.6
This process restates information from sources without offering new insights
What is summarizing?
When giving peer feedback, it’s important to be this
What is specific (with feedback)?
Unlike traditional essays, your literature review should be organized around these, which allow sources to be connected and discussed in relation to each other
What are themes/ topics?
This is the process that allows you to gain multiple perspectives on your writing, which can help you revise more effectively by pointing out ideas, structure, or details you might have missed
What is peer review?
"Does the paper have a central thesis?" is an example of this
What is a HOC?
This process involves combining multiple sources to reach a broader conclusion
What is synthesis?
If a peer’s previous reviewer has already left comments, you should do this
What is take those comments into consideration, agree or disagree, and provide your own perspective or alternative suggestions, etc.?
In a literature review, new knowledge is not created. Instead, the focus is on this
What is synthesizing existing research to help your audience understand what’s already been discovered on your topic?
In peer review, your role as a reviewer is not to judge or act as a copyeditor, but rather to respond as this, by focusing on how ideas are communicated and the clarity of the writing
What is a reader?
The questions "Does the organization make sense? Should any part be moved to another part?" are examples of this
What are HOCs?
This type of synthesis focuses on explaining a perspective and the reasoning behind it by bringing sources together, rather than making an argument
What is an explanatory synthesis?
This checklist item involves checking whether the paper flows logically from one paragraph or idea to the next, and whether transitions are used effectively
What is analyzing the organization?
These should make up most of the paragraphs in a literature review
What are sources?
When giving feedback, it’s crucial not to offer vague comments like “good job” but instead do this
What is offer specific feedback?
Spelling errors are an example of this
What are LOC?
In order to effectively synthesize sources, you must construct your body paragraphs in a way that does this
What is acknowledging different sources and highlighting relationships/ what is carving out a research space and occupying a niche/ what is recognizing different viewpoints and drawing new conclusions?
Answer Acceptance up to Prof. K
When reviewing a paper for peer review, it’s important to remember to address this before focusing on sentence-level edits
What are high-order concerns (organization, clarity, etc.)?
For your literature review you need this many sources, broken down in this way
What is 10 sources/ 6 academic and 4 popular?
In peer review, it’s important to remember that your feedback is meant to be this, not judgmental
What is constructive/helpful?
Unlike sentence structure, paragraph structure is an example of this
What is a HOC?
In the second PurdueOWL example on synthesis, his technique involves showing how sources relate to one another, such as using words like "similarly" or "in contrast," and helps create a more cohesion by making the relationship between sources evident
What is using transitions to compare and contrast sources?
This benefit of peer review suggests that by analyzing another writer’s work, you might discover this
What is using the experience to benefit your own writing/lessons or strategies you can apply to your own writing revision process, etc.?
FINAL JEOPARDY
How do you pronounce Prof. K's name?
This is a helpful approach to take if you are confused by something a peer has written
What is ask questions?
Word choice and punctuation are both examples of this
What are LOCs?