How to use this guide: Each entry provides the items title, who provided it and when and where it was used (if known), and the format it is in on the website (PDFs are not easily editable; Word documents and text files should be editable and provide the ability to copy and paste its elements).

(Updated Jan. 24, 2008)

Guideline for Comments on Student Papers
Source/Contributor: Tom Cramer, instructor
Course: HIST 498
Date: Spring 2006
Format: PDF

One-page handout for students providing an outline on how to provide oral and written feedback on other students' work.


The Peer Reviewing Process
Source/Contributor: Prof. Marcuse
Course: Pro-seminar on German History (UC Santa Barbara, HIST 133P
Date: Spring 2004
Format: PDF

One-page handout for students who need to prepare 2- to 3-page critique of a peer's paper. Refers to Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, 4th ed. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004).


Peer Review Instructions
Source/Contributor: Unknown
Course: Twentieth Century Russia (UC Irvine, HIST 124B)
Date: Unknown
Format: PDF

Two-page handout for peer reviewers and the reviewed working in triads (each student reviews papers from two other students). Provides tips for people being reviewed on how to respond to their reviewers and reviews.


Conducting Advice-Centered Peer-Review
Source/Contributor: Unknown
Course: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Format: PDF

This is a three-page guide for instructors on how to implement advice-centered (rather than response-centered) peer reviews in the classroom. It is adapted from John Bean's Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (San Francisco: 2001).