Using Peer Rebuttals to Develop Skill in Argumentative Writing.

Sedgwick, Ellery

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ERIC Number: EJ303959

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Publication Date: 1984

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Using Peer Rebuttals to Develop Skill in Argumentative Writing.

Sedgwick, Ellery

Exercise Exchange, v30 n1 p6-7 Fall 1984

Describes a writing assignment to help students develop the capacity to anticipate and deal with the counter arguments of a skeptical reading audience, in which classmates offer rebuttals to student position papers. A sample peer review form is included. (HTH)

Descriptors: Critical Reading, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Persuasive Discourse, Reader Response, Rhetorical Criticism, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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