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Peer Review

Guidelines for Reading and Analyzing Literature

Reviewed:
Mar 25, 2019 by English
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 3.8 stars
Content Quality: 4.0 stars
Effectiveness: 3.8 stars
Ease of Use: 3.8 stars
Overview:

 This website is designed by Dr. Tina Hanlon, Associate Professor at Ferrum College, Virginia. It offers basic guildeines to understand literary texts

 

Type of Material:

Tutorial

Recommended Uses:

in-class groupwork for an introductory assignment

Technical Requirements:

Internet connection, and a Compter or an Ipad or a Smartphone

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Users will understand how to evaluate a work of literature based on their own responses to the work and to the author's other works (primariliy reader response)

Target Student Population:

Middle School, High School

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

none

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:

The content is easy to be comprehended, since the level of the English language is not difficult. In addition, no tough literary terms are used to explain the content. Therefore, any website user may not need to refer to a specialist dealing with literary texts for clarification of vague points.

Concerns:
  • There is no reference to any literary texts to explain the strategies mentioned on the website. Hence, some website users with no literary background might find some difficulty in applying these strategies to literary texts.
  • This is limited to reader response criticism, yet it does not indicate that their are other methods of criticism.
  • Many terms are undefined or only briefly defined.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:

provides an easy checklist style for early readers

Concerns:
  • limited and simplistic view of analysis
  • does not indicate how to tie the steps together

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:

The website users do not have to surf from one webpage to another. All the content is available on one webpage.

Concerns:
  • The two external links are invalid, so no extra content can be gained.
  • Other items are underlined but are not actual hyperlinks
Other Issues and Comments:

This website has not been updated since 2009.

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