Lit Review

Nancy Sommers in her article writes about revision and how experienced writers use the method of revision for making improvement in writing. I plan on bringing up this article and comparing it to peer response and peer revision. If Sommers is all about revision and going over work, wouldn’t it make sense to go over more than one paper to improve your writing. would going over peers writing improve your writers. When going over someone else’s writing, we gain experience that most of the time improve our own writing. In Diana Georges article she is all for working in peer groups in composition classes. She gives more depth on how teachers role in peer groups is helpful. And also how teacher’s should encourage peer response, while still being involved as a “facilitator”. I will use this source for proof of my theory. Diana George’s article is more focused on the teacher’s role in peer response. She says how it is still necessary to have a teacher that is well prepared to handle group work yet still not taking over control, and letting students drive their discussions. Gillam will be the one source which will be able to take my writing of project two to a much deeper meaning. Gilliam not only says that peer response can help students writing, but she brings the idea of “metacognition”. When students are revising and responding to each others work, they learn to control their own thinking process. They learn how they take in text and makes it easier yet more challenging in a positive way to write better papers. “the believing game” from Elbow from Gillams article is the way we should think as far as peer response learning. We must “trust students capacity to learn from one another and for themselves” If we all believe, we call all achieve.