For this type of feedback, you go through the student’s paper point-by-point while recording your responses on your cell phone or computer and email the audio files to the student. Here are some examples of “think-aloud responses” students have received in different courses participating in the Reader Project.
(These “think-aloud responses” were recorded by readers in prior courses. Each includes excerpts from a longer response to the student paper.)
Economics: Book Review
- COURSE: Economics: International Trade and Development
- ASSIGNMENT: Book Review suitable for publishing in journal
- READER: Fuqua alumnus; Solutions Consultant, Management Dynamics (company that writes and implements software to manage global trade for international companies in over 100 countries)
Health Sciences: Commentary
- COURSE: Writing 101: The Science of Sunscreen
- ASSIGNMENT: Commentary
- READER: Duke alumnus; internist in private practice
Environmental Science: Policy Brief
- COURSE: Env Science: Environment and Conflict
- ASSIGNMENT: Policy Brief
- READER: Duke alumnus; former managing editor, Ecological Society of America publications
