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COWL Pilots in Economics
• These slides contain tips on using the COWL site for peer review
• Peer review means giving and receiving feedback on draft assignments
• Usually, students review a peer’s draft face-to-face
• We are piloting COWL as an online environment for peer review
Please remember that you are taking part in a pilot, so we are all learning about online peer review together
Prior to the workshop
• We hope that students will have uploaded draft coursework assignments to COWL in advance
• If this has not happened there is a back-up plan
• You will receive a sample hard copy coursework draft, which students can annotate using a pen if any problems arise – please ask them to go into detail and add a comment as feedback
The rationale
• The aim of this online peer review opportunity is to develop critical thinking skills and help everyone become more scholarly writers
• CAW staff are present to help everyone identify areas to comment on in the draft assignments
• CAW staff will also help out as you use the online system
In the workshop
• Check your University email account for an email from COWL and click on the link to the COWL site in the email
• If you do not find an email from COWL, go directly to COWL: http://cowl.coventry.ac.uk
• Input your Coventry University username and password (see the next slide)
Giving feedback to a peer
• Once inside the COWL site, select ‘COWL Home’
• You should have been allocated a draft to give feedback on
• Gain access to the document by selecting the ID number (see next slide)
• Read the initial question posed by the person who wrote the document
• Click on the file name once and open the Word document (see next slide)
• A new window should open as a Word document
• Cut and past sections of the coursework into the first box to comment in detail and show how the language could be improved
• Use the highlighter options etc. for emphasis • Give general comments to the writer in the
second box• Select ‘insert’ to submit your feedback
• Click on ‘alert writer of new feedback’ then ‘OK’• Click on ‘log out’
• Then, log into COWL again to view the feedback you have received
Receiving feedback
• To collect your feedback, go to COWL home and click on the ID number beside your name
• Under ‘feedback’, read the comments and incorporate them into your revisions before submitting your coursework
Tips on peer review
• All professional writers submit their drafts for comments before publication
• It is hard to do justice to your ideas if you do not seek and obtain feedback before submitting work for assessment
Where to focus?
• You can start with the contents, or the form of a document when you are reviewing it
• Both are important!
Giving feedback to other writers
• Does the draft fulfil the requirements of the brief?
• Is the draft well organised?• Are the paragraphs well structured?• Are the sentences clear and grammatically
correct?• Is the language formal?
Be constructive
• Treat other writers as you wish to be treated
• Make at least one positive comment, e.g. ‘I really like the clarity of your written style!’’
• Consider your phrasing and be friendly
A recommended book about writing
• Creme, P. and Lea, M. R. (2000) Writing at University: A Guide for Students. Buckingham: Open University Press
• This book is available 2nd hand for £4 via Amazon books:
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0335213251/ref=sr_1_olp_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255293264&sr=1-2
What to do if you wish to upload documents to COWL
• Save your coursework assignment to the desktop
• Go online to COWL: http://cowl.coventry.ac.uk • Input your Coventry University username and
password• Click on ‘New Tutorial’ • Browse for the Word document containing your
coursework• Upload this to COWL (see next slides)
• Under ‘initial question’ write a short message asking for feedback on specific areas such as language, organisation, ideas, etc.
• Select ‘next’ to submit the message (see the next slide)
• Tick the box to remain anonymous• Select ‘finish’ • Note that you can only upload a document once
(re-name it if you want to re-submit)• Select ‘log out’ to complete the submission (see
the next slide)