With Peers: Getting and Giving Feedback
This activity asks students to consider how they would react in common peer feedback scenarios. Once students have written down their responses, they discuss them in groups, noticing patterns or habits and making connections to Hofstede's concepts.
Respond to the following situations in writing
Your instructor asks you and a classmate to exchange papers for a peer reading.
a) After reading your classmate’s paper, you feel the thesis isn’t clear. How do you express this? Write down your responses.
b) You really like the hook your peer wrote for the introduction. Do you tell her or him? If so, what do you say? Write down your responses.
c) You find it very hard to understand your peer’s paper and you feel that he or she hasn’t done enough background work to complete the writing assignment. What do you do/ say? Write down your responses.
Discussion
In your group, discuss the responses that you wrote down. Take time as a group to listen to what each student wrote and to tell that student how you would react if you were one of her or his group members. What connections can they make to Hofstede's concepts?
Respond to the following situations in writing
Your instructor asks you and a classmate to exchange papers for a peer reading.
a) After reading your classmate’s paper, you feel the thesis isn’t clear. How do you express this? Write down your responses.
b) You really like the hook your peer wrote for the introduction. Do you tell her or him? If so, what do you say? Write down your responses.
c) You find it very hard to understand your peer’s paper and you feel that he or she hasn’t done enough background work to complete the writing assignment. What do you do/ say? Write down your responses.
Discussion
In your group, discuss the responses that you wrote down. Take time as a group to listen to what each student wrote and to tell that student how you would react if you were one of her or his group members. What connections can they make to Hofstede's concepts?