Week 7 Crit: Peer review

A mock blind review round, and what changes about a note when the person who wrote it doesn't know who's reading.

5 April 2027

Bring#

A one-page proposal — for a project, a piece of work, anything with a claim in it worth arguing about — submitted to the room anonymously beforehand.

The crit#

You each get someone else’s anonymous proposal to review, in writing, before the room meets. Then we read reviews aloud without naming reviewers, and guess who wrote which one — usually easier than anyone expects, voice surviving the disguise more often than not. What holds is this week’s actual lecture point: anonymity was never disguise, it was permission to say the specific thing at all.

Leaves with#

A written review you’d be willing to sign, even though you didn’t have to.