A Queer Praxis for Peer Review

A Queer Praxis for Peer Review

If, as I argue, student-to-student peer review is animated by "improvement imperatives" that make peer review a form of what Lauren Berlant calls "cruel optimism," then rhetoric and composition will need to imagine theories and structures for peer review that do not repeat cruel...

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Published in:College composition and communication Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 306 - 332
Main Author: Oleksiak, Timothy
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: National Council of Teachers of English 01-12-2020
Subjects:
Evaluation Methods
Homosexuality
Peer Evaluation
Revision (Written Composition)
Rhetoric
Writing (Composition)
Writing Assignments
Writing Evaluation
Writing Improvement
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Summary:If, as I argue, student-to-student peer review is animated by "improvement imperatives" that make peer review a form of what Lauren Berlant calls "cruel optimism," then rhetoric and composition will need to imagine theories and structures for peer review that do not repeat cruel attachments. I offer slow peer review as a strategy for queer rhetorical listening that maintains our commitments to peer review without the limitations created through the improvement imperative.
ISSN:0010-096X
DOI:10.58680/CCC202031039