In this article, the author describes a practice of peer evaluation that she has found fruitful, both for developing students' sense of audience and for elevating the status of peer reviewers, whose opinions on successful writing are too often viewed as less trustworthy than those of their instructors. This technique of peer evaluation involves…

Implementing deracination and the Detached Intellectual Space (D.I.S.)--components of a developing critical thinking pedagogy termed "decritique"--offer a more critically reflective alternative to classroom peer-review activities that mistakenly focus on a "notion of caring." Working within a theoretical framework drawn from Derrida and Bakhtin,…