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Review Tasks

• How review tasks fit into the big picture: How Eli Review Works
• What students and instructors see: Review Task Snapshot
• A useful framework for giving helpful feedback: Describe-Evaluate-Suggest

Student Resources

• How giving helpful feedback helps you be a better writer: Feedback and Improvement
• Specific strategies for how to be more helpful: Giving Helpful Feedback
• Full details on how review tasks work in Eli Review: Student User Guide

Instructor Resources

Using the App

• Details on options and settings:  Instructor User Guide
• A tutorial on question design in peer feedback: Understanding Review Response Types
• Video: Using Describe-Evaluate-Suggest to Design Reviews
• Suggestions for managing peer learning:
  • Time Management
  • Managing Late Writers when forming groups
• Strategies for using the data from a review task: Strategies for Debriefing a Review
• How to help an individual writer after a review: Strategies for Conferencing

Getting Ideas for Review Tasks

• First Round of Peer Review Activities:
  • Start with How and Why
  • Framing Feedback and Revision
• Open Source Tasks in Eli’s Library
  • research writing in the sciences
  • essential moves of technical writing
  • inspired by Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT)
• Featured Reviews by Eli Users
  • Topic Proposal from Scott Kushner, Communication Studies, URI
  • Research Questions from Barbara D’Angelo, Technical Writing, ASU 
  • Threshold Concepts in Intro Biology, UCSB
  • Muddiest Point Crowdsourcing

Thinking about Teaching

• Reading: Designing Effective Reviews
• Reading: Evidence-Based Teaching
• Video: Promoting Strong Feedback Cultures
• Book: Personal, Accessible, Responsive, and Strategic by Borgman and McArdle