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AbstractThis article offers slow peer review as an approach to student-to-student peer review in the writing classroom. Slow peer review is based in the values and theories of rhetorical feminism and, when executed purposefully, can function as a fitting alternative to fake news rhetoric. In addition to articulating the steps of slow peer review, this article illustrates how two students in a sophomore-level writing class engaged in the practice. Initial results suggest that nondirective description can lead to meaningful changes in student writing. The article concludes with further considerations for writing teachers who wish to conduct slow peer review in their own classrooms.

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.

Book Review| June 01 2016 An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings. By Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013; pp. v + 256. $70.00 hardcover; $34.95 paper. Timothy Oleksiak Timothy Oleksiak Bloomsburg University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (2): 343–346. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.2.0343 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Oleksiak; An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2016; 19 (2): 343–346. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.2.0343 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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