Digital Peer Response: Revising Writer’s Workshops Anya Connelly

California State University, Sacramento Spring 2016

Research Question:

Methodology:

Results Effective Peer

Responses
80%
59%
60% Print
41% Based
40%
Google
20% Doc
0%

PB: 29 GD: 42 | Total: 71

Effective Workshop
Script Freedback
60%
55%
55% Print
Based
50%
45% Google
45% Doc
40%
PB: 12 GD: 10 | Total: 22

Applied Revisions
80% 68%
60% Print
Based
40% 32%
Google
20% Doc

0%
PB: 14 GD: 30 | Total: 44
Digital Peer Response: Revising Writer’s Workshops Anya Connelly
California State University, Sacramento Spring 2016

Areas of applied Revision

100% 87%
80% 67%
56% 60%
60% 44% 40%
40% 33%
Print Based
20% 13%
Google Doc
0%

Implications for Pedagogy:

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