In comparison with traditional in-class review sessions, students seemed less concerned with how their words would affect the writer, more concerned with how their words would affect the text. As the text became the primary focus, students began to trust one another to make certain that the essays published would be clearly-written, meaningful statements about their lives during their first college semester. Students' second and third rounds of peer review in team discussion drawer. Students from both universities took pictures of their places with digitized cameras. Acadia students created a Web page with 12 links, each link containing a one-page essay and a photo of the place.
Thumbnail pictures that the students took.
An example of the pictures taken by students at Wake Forest University. The picture shown was a photo for an essay about a secluded, natural retreat. The Purpose Students learn to write in a variety of ways. To make students more conscious of their own writing processes, to make them think critically about their texts, teachers of writing often set up peer review sessions. These sessions allow writers to become readers of one another's texts.