Abstract

Fashion students can benefit from having adequate writing skills in pursuing a job in he fashion industry. In order to meet such demands in writing skills and to have a better chance at getting a desired job, fashion students can significantly enhance their writing skills pertinent to possible jobs, in an in-major writing intensive course. The discussions in the abstract includes the benefits of implementing peer reviews along the process of writing a term paper, how to implement it, and the student feedback on the pedagogical strategy.

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  • Creative adoption of peer review among students: Peer review is defined as “a process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, n.d.)

  • The students can provide more specific constructive feedback to one another, especially regarding the content related to fashion

  • Objective of adoption of the strategy: The purposes of adopting student peer review process, as a part of the process of writing a term paper in a writing-intensive fashion merchandising courses, are as follows: (a) to incorporate more reviews from other people than the instructor/grader, (b) to expand the scope of the reviews to contribute to enhancement of content, (c) and for the students to learn from peer students, to help them enhance their writing

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Creative adoption of peer review among students: Peer review is defined as “a process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, n.d.). Until they receive feedback from the instructor or grader, they may not receive any specific constructive feedback on the content for effective revision of the paper.

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