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Developing Writers interview with
Benjamin Keating, author of Chapter Two,

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A Good Development Thing.

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Peer Review and
Authority in Undergraduate Writing.

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Please introduce yourself and
your current position.

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My name is Benjamin Keating.

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I am assistant teaching professor of
writing at Wake Forest University.

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What would you like students
to take away from your chapter?

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The big take away for
students is that the peer

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review is a skill to be able to give and
receive feedback.

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A skill you can take outside
of the writing classroom,

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outside of the college classroom in
general and bring to your career.

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Because the chances are,
you will have to interact around writing.

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At some point,
you will be asked to give and

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receive feedback via writing or
face to face.

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So I think the take away is
that doing peer review and

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giving peer review
a chance to help you see

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your writing through
someone else's eyes and

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also help you develop your skills as
someone who can give useful feedback.

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These are things that can transfer
not only to other courses in

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the university but
to your career once you get there.

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I think the takeaway is that
when you're invested in

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reading generously someone else's writing,
that you can gain so much.

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Even by practicing that feedback, you
can learn where you stand on issues and

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you can learn about your
own process of writing.

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So I'd say that people who
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I think this chapter offers kind of
a framework to articulate why staying

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in a writing group is a good idea,
and why listening to feedback and

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learning how to give feedback is a useful,
good idea.

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Peer review actually is a chance for
you to learn about your peers, and for

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you to connect with them.

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And that's one thing that students said
In the research, in the interviews.

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They really valued the chance to
learn more about someone's life and

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about what someone believes, and
about what's important to somebody.

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What suggestions do you have for

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a student who can't access helpful
peer review in the classroom?

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One option is for the student to go to
the local writing center immediately,

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because I think that there's
a very good chance that you'll be

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able to get peer review there.

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And then the second suggestion is
to if the student is comfortable

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to ask the instructor if peer review
would be possible in the class.

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I guess a third option would be for
students to use pre-existing

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social networks to receive feedback, and
that's something in the chapter actually.

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Where students who had less training and
less structure

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around how to do peer review well, tended
to seek review outside the classroom.

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I call that self-sponsored peer review.

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This is interview was produced with
the help of interviewer Naitnaphit Limlamai,

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designers Kesava Karthik Kota and

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Kentaro Toyama, content editors
Jathan Day and Anne Ruggles Gere.

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Michael Hoffman, Ruth Li,
Naitnaphit Limlamai, Adrienne Raw and

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