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Adapted from Joseph Bizup (2008). “BEAM: A Rhetorical Vocabulary for Teaching Research-Based Writing,” Rhetoric Review, 27:1, 72-86, DOI: 10.1080/07350190701738858

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College courses are often larger, more complex, and more impersonal than HS classes. No one will make you go to class; but you have fewer classes per course. In many courses, each class builds on the one before.  You may not be allowed to make-up missed work.  Few instructors will provide you with details about Read More …

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As you read your peer’s drafts, write margin comments and an end comment to help the writer improve the global dimensions of their writing.  A good margin comment will: Be generous and considerate in tone; Describe what you see or think as a reader – especially describe the purpose of each chunk of the paper you evaluate, leading Read More …

Revise your paper Make all revisions on a new copy of your Google Doc file; keep the original draft with your peer’s comments intact. Make multiple global changes to your paper that improve it’s meaning. Expectations: Improve your summaries of other writers’ ideas about what college is for and what they should study. Make them Read More …

An essay is a meaning-making piece of writing in which a writer seeks to make sense of the world by exploring some particular problem or phenomenon, often through the lens of some particular idea.  The essayist tries to make connections among ideas and experiences to create knowledge. As you read your peer’s drafts, write comments to help the writer improve the global dimensions of Read More …