Peer Review and the "Non-Specialist Reader": Strategies for Developing Audience Awareness in the Writing for the Health Professions Classroom
Keywords:
audience awareness, peer review, health writingAbstract
This article addresses how peer review workshops can be used to help student-writers gain a greater sense of audience awareness. Drawing from my experiences teaching a Writing for the Health Professions class, I argue that such workshops transform what might be seen as a pedagogical challenge – students’ differing areas of study – into a unique opportunity for developing rhetorical skills as each student learns to write for individuals who may know very little about his or her area of expertise.Downloads
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