Use online forums to get feedback on your essay | Exchange Ideas on the Worldwide Web | 9-10, 11–12

Instructions

Materials Needed:

• Students will require an account created for one or more of the following online-feedback writing communities:
  • Circle Critique
  • Poetry Poem
  • Wattpad
• Students will each require a student and internet access

Step 1: Own It – “How many people need to review a book before you know it will be good?”

• Think-Pair-Share:
  • How many people need to review and provide feedback to a book before you know it will be good?
  • Who do those people have to be?  Name at least 3 and why.

Step 2: Learn It – How t ask for feedback online

• Provide students the background around obtaining critical feedback for their essay through online communities
  • Background:
    • Online communities provide access to a wide variety of perspectives, experts, and communities
    • These varied sources for feedback can help you revise and edit your essay to make it better!
  • Steps for students to take (share with them using a one page reference sheet)
    1. Have your essay or piece of writing ready as a word document (or google document)
    2. Decide what questions you would like answered from the online community:
       • Do you want feedback on grammar?
       • Organization and structure?
       • Coherence and cohesion?
       • Evaluation of your analysis and claims?
    3. Decide which online community you would like to post in (can post in 1 or all 3):
       • Circle Critique
       • Poetry Poem
       • Wattpad
    4. Post your request to feedback on the chosen online communities:
       • Make sure that your post has these following elements:
         • The objective of your post: “I would like the following type of feedback on my essay…”
         • The essay question you are answering (from your assignment)
         • The rubric (if available) that will be used in class to evaluate their essay/writing piece
         • The text of your essay
         • A thank you at the end

Step 3: Have students post on at least 1 online forums

• Have students make their post according to their objectives

Step 4: Have students provide feedback on at least 1 other post on each online forum they’ve posted 

• Students should reciprocate their request on forums by providing feedback on one post per forum they have posted on