ERIC Number: EJ1342238
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-2548-8457
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Engaging Novice Writers in Online Collaborative Review through Peer-Review Circles
Nur, Sahril; Anas, Ismail; Rahayu
International Journal of Language Education, v6 n1 p63-74 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this article presents online Peer-Review Circles (PRC) as an innovative and collaborative approach to academic writing, mainly proofreading and copy-editing processes. It aims to engage novice second language (L2) writers in online joint review and increase their understanding of pre-reviewing scholarly papers before submission. The authors had observed that a large number of doctoral students are still considered novice writers. Therefore, there was a need for a practical approach to improve their review skills and engage them in online PRC activities. Grounded in Monologue-Dialogue-Discussion (MDD) Circles (Manning & Jobbitt, 2018), this article extends its potential to be adopted and used beyond the classroom and mandatory ELT contexts. MDD requires three consecutive stages: 1) primary reviewer's monologue, 2) primary and secondary reviewer's dialogue, and 3) writer and the reviewers perform a group discussion. These activities will help the writers to look after the manuscripts simultaneously from a PRC perspective. We also developed peer review Feedback Questions (FQs) to guide the reviewers to perform meaningful discussions. The output of the PRCs will likely be an initial review or a pre-evaluation process to improve the manuscript quality, readability, and publishability.
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Cooperative Learning, Academic Language, Doctoral Students, Novices, Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), Writing Processes, Writing for Publication, Dialogs (Language), Case Studies, Videoconferencing
International Journal of Language Education. Faculty of Languages and Literature
UNM Jl Daeng Tata Raya Makassar, South Sulawesi 90224 Indonesia. e-mail: ijole@unm.ac.id; Web site: https://ojs.unm.ac.id/ijole/index
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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