Utilizing Peer Review To Facilitate Online Learning Communities

The following is a public-facing thesis project. It includes three main components that function as a professional teaching portfolio and materials for future academic work. First, the course design article is a proposal for a first-year writing course at the University of Wyoming. The course emphasizes utilizing peer review to facilitate online learning communities. The course design article does not follow the conventions of a traditional article, rather it employs the genre conventions of a course design article and includes a course description, institutional context, theoretical rationale, critical reflection, and syllabus. Second, the community college application materials are useful to my future career aspirations and include a teaching philosophy, cover letter, and curriculum vitae. Third, the book review is an examination of Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch’s Virtual Peer Review: Teaching and Learning about Writing in Online Environments. While this project is separated into three distinct sections, each section is related in topic or purpose.