November 1, 2006 Observation

November 1, 2006

  Today’s class was a peer review day via outlines and an explanation of the format of the paper. Since this paper was an analysis paper and the students were struggling to grasp what ‘analysis’ is the set up for the paper seemed to be formulaic, though the students did have the ability to alter the organization to suit the strengths and weaknesses of the paper. Within the opening paragraph she wanted the students to introduce the topic, name of the article, author and journal followed by the thesis. After the students organized their introduction they broke off into groups to do reviews on outlines.