Discusses how an online environment enhances the effectiveness of peer critique. Describes experiences with peer critiquing by computer. Notes that students responded favorably to online critiquing. Concludes that the results were critiques that were lively and personable—not matter-of-fact and dull like many handwritten ones.

Lois Rubin, Exploration of the Writing Experience: A Way to Improve Composing, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 34, No. 3, Composing Processes: Assessments of Recent Research, New Research, Applications in the Classroom (Oct., 1983), pp. 349-355