VOKI Presentations |
Here are two Voki presentations that talk about two of the six kinds of descriptive feedback I ask students to use on each other's (and their own) drafts. Descriptive Feedback is a term Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff use in their book Sharing and Responding (Random House, 1989.) I have drawn my terms and uses of them from their work with some modifications.
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Scripts for Voki Talks
Voki 1. Sayback
Today I am going to talk about one of the six kinds of descriptive feedback we will be using in this workshop. It is called “Sayback.” When you ask for sayback, you are asking your readers to tell you in their own words what they understand you to be saying sentence-by-sentence or paragraph-by-paragraph. It is a good tool for early drafts when you are not sure what your main goal or point will be. Often, our readers can hear and understand things in our writing that we cannot yet see or hear. The way to begin this is to say or write: I think I hear you saying XYZ in the first sentence. Be prepared to point to words and passages to explain why you think this.
Voki 2. Pointing
Today we are going to talk about another kind of descriptive feedback: it is called pointing. This is a very simple form of feedback: as you read someone’s draft, you underline the parts you think are strong, evocative, or working well. Don’t over think it—this is a gut impression as you read through. The second form of pointing is bracketing: as you read, you put brackets around sections that are confusing or weak. As a writer, you can ask for this kind of feedback at anytime in your drafting process: it is a way to gauge how you are doing. If several writers underline or bracket the same areas of your draft, you have a good idea of what you are doing right and where you need to focus attention or employ some revision strategies.
Today I am going to talk about one of the six kinds of descriptive feedback we will be using in this workshop. It is called “Sayback.” When you ask for sayback, you are asking your readers to tell you in their own words what they understand you to be saying sentence-by-sentence or paragraph-by-paragraph. It is a good tool for early drafts when you are not sure what your main goal or point will be. Often, our readers can hear and understand things in our writing that we cannot yet see or hear. The way to begin this is to say or write: I think I hear you saying XYZ in the first sentence. Be prepared to point to words and passages to explain why you think this.
Voki 2. Pointing
Today we are going to talk about another kind of descriptive feedback: it is called pointing. This is a very simple form of feedback: as you read someone’s draft, you underline the parts you think are strong, evocative, or working well. Don’t over think it—this is a gut impression as you read through. The second form of pointing is bracketing: as you read, you put brackets around sections that are confusing or weak. As a writer, you can ask for this kind of feedback at anytime in your drafting process: it is a way to gauge how you are doing. If several writers underline or bracket the same areas of your draft, you have a good idea of what you are doing right and where you need to focus attention or employ some revision strategies.