ACTIVITY 9.8
Revising Your Analysis

You have now received feedback on the first draft of your analysis from one or more peer reviewers. Now your task is to analyze the feedback you've received, perhaps engage in a computer-mediated dialogue with your peers to solicit more feedback, and revise your analysis based on the feedback.

Step 1: Making Sense of Feedback You've Received

Read your peers' responses carefully and consider the following items:

Were all the comments clear? Which did you not understand? Did reading the comments make you wonder about other aspects of your draft?

Reply to the E-mail feedback you received from your peers by asking for clarification of their comments. If one reader pointed out one problem with your draft and the others didn't, you might ask the latter to look at the same section again to see what they think.

Having now read the feedback from you peers, do other questions occur to you? E-mail your peers with those questions.

How were your peers' comments similar to those you made about the draft in your reflective statement?

How are the critiques similar? In other words, are there certain features of your draft all your readers liked? Did they have similar comments about the content, structure, or style of your draft? Make a list of all the common comments, both the praise and the constructive criticism.

How do the critiques differ? Did they comment on different aspects of your draft? Did one applaud you for a section while another reader identified that same section as an area of improvement? If you do get contradictory comments on the same aspects of your draft, what might that mean? Make a list of all the areas of improvement or contradictory comments.

What did you learn about writing an effective analysis from critiquing your writing partners' drafts? Was there anything you said about their drafts that might equally apply to your own?

Reflect on the lists you made and what you noticed in your peers' drafts, and develop a revision strategy for yourself. You might begin this strategy by completing the following phrases:

Step 2: Revise Your Draft

Revise your draft based on the feedback you've received.

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