Feedback Discussions Instructions

Goals

  • Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
  • Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
  • Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]
  • Apply principles of effective visual design for print and electronic presentation, including hierarchical, chronological, and spatial arrangements. [CLO 6]
  • Identify and apply the principles of effective style in the composing of usable, reader-centered written communications. [CLO 7]

The Task

Prepare for the Feedback Discussions

Read the following pages to learn more about the feedback process:

Ask for Feedback

    1. Choose a passage from your project to ask for feedback on, and form a specific question about that passage. Work to choose a question that will require more than a simple “yes” or “no” answer.
    2. Decide on the best way to share your passage. Note that you should NOT upload your entire project—just the passage that your question applies to.Here are some possibilities:
      • Cut and paste a passage into Piazza if you are asking about the way the text works.
      • Take a screenshot if you are asking about the design or layout.
      • Upload a file with the passage you have chosen if you are asking about something where formatting matters.
      • Use your imagination. Anything reasonable works.
    3. Go to our course site in Piazza Links to an external site..
    4. Create a new post for your passage:
      • Mark the Post Type of “Question.”
      • Post your passage and question to the “Entire Class.”
      • Choose the folder name that corresponds to the project you are working on.
      • Write a clear Summary, which works as the subject line. See Strong Subject Lines if you need help.
      • Add your passage and related question in the Details area.
    5. Post your discussion once you have finished. Be sure to post by noon on the Friday of the week.
    6. If desired, you can post more than one request for feedback. You can also ask follow-up questions if you need more information.

Give Feedback to Your Classmates

    1. Read and respond to the passages and questions posted by others in the class. Begin by responding to someone who has no feedback, if possible.
    2. Respond to as many requests for feedback as you can. The more effort you put in, the more you will learn about writing and responding to documents.

Grading Process

You track and grade your own work in this course. Be sure to complete the following tasks:

  • Track your work in your Weekly Work Log.
  • Claim points for your Feedback Discussion when you complete the Self-Assessment for the week in Canvas.

You need to post requests for feedback early enough to allow others in the course to respond before the end of the grace period. If you do not post your request for feedback by noon on the Friday of a week, you cannot claim points for posting a passage that week. 

Similarly, if you do not provide feedback for others by the end of the grace period, you cannot claim any points for those activities during the related week in your self-assessment.