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Enhancing Your Writing Through Peer Support – A Guide for MA Students

This presentation is designed for MA students at California State University San Marcos to leverage peer support during the writing process. Each student can benefit from feedback through the Praise, Question, and Polish (PQP) method. Students will learn how to provide constructive criticism with kindness, helping one another improve their work effectively. With organized feedback practices, peer review sessions can help identify strengths and weaknesses in writing. Emphasizing collaboration, this guide outlines how to give and receive feedback, develop improvement strategies, and plan future reviews.

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Enhancing Your Writing Through Peer Support – A Guide for MA Students

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  1. Writing Group Support California State University San Marcos

  2. Peers - Support Resource • Your peers are all going through the same process and can be a great resource to guide your through the MA process. • Peers can proof read your work and give you helpful advice. • This ppt is designed to guide you through a process to help you give constructive criticism to a colleague.

  3. Praise, Question & Polish (PQP) • Praise: Praise the strong parts of the paper. Be specific. • Questions: Identify what questions you had about the paper. Ask questions that probe and push the author to articulate what they mean. • Polish: What could be done to polish up the paper? Be specific.

  4. Constructive Criticism • Be helpful, but kind. Tell them what they need to hear, in a kind way, so they hear you. • Be honest about what needs to be changed. Remember it is not helpful to tell someone it is good, if it is not. • Give specific suggestions. Help the author make the needed changes.

  5. Write Up Feedback • Take notes on paper. • Look at your notes on the paper and organize the feedback in the Praise, Question and Polish (PQP)categories. • Write up a separate set of notes for the Praise, Question and Polish Feedback (PQP).

  6. Peer Review – Guided Practice • Partner Up • Exchange Writing • Locate an Introduction to a Chapter • Review the rubric expectations • Is the problem identified? • Are there guiding/research questions? • Are the chapter contents previewed? • Are all Level 1 Headings used to preview the chapter?

  7. Praise • What did the author do well? • Write down all the positives.

  8. Questions • Write down what questions you had about the paper. • Ask questions that probe and push the author to articulate what they mean. • Use questions to prompt the author to meet the expectations in the rubric.

  9. Polish • What could be done to polish up the paper? • Be specific. • Look back at the questions you listed, how could the author address them? • Give the author tangible ideas on what he/she can change and how.

  10. Peer Review Evaluation • What did you learned by reading and receiving feedback from your peers. • What went well and what could be improved next time? • Develop a plan to implement improvement strategies.

  11. Next Peer Review Plan • Set a date to meet with your partner. • Identify what you will write. • When and how will you provide a copy of your writing to your partner. • Identify what you want feedback on.

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