Graduate writing can feel isolating—but it doesn’t have to. Peer review is an evidence-based approach to strengthen your writing and deepen your understanding of STEM genre conventions. Through your peer’s feedback, you gain a reader’s perspective that helps improve structure and clarity in your draft. Acting as the reviewer, you see what works—and what doesn’t—giving you critical insight into STEM writing expectations you can immediately apply to your own work.
In our six-week STEM Writers Grad Studio: Peer Review program, we put the benefits of peer review into practice. Held on Tuesdays from February 3 to March 17, 2026, each session alternates between focused genre theory and structured peer review, so you learn the conventions of STEM writing and apply them to your own work—from overall structure to paragraphs and sentences. You’ll gain strategies for giving and receiving feedback, learn how to turn comments into effective revisions, and leave with polished sections of writing that you can integrate into your thesis or manuscript. Please bring a work-in-progress draft each week—thesis chapters, manuscript excerpts, proposals, or technical reports are all welcome.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Tuesday, February 24, 2026 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Tuesday, March 3, 2026 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Tuesday, March 10, 2026 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, March 17, 2026 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)STEM Writers' Grad Studio: Peer Review
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Registration for Winter 2026 is closed, but we hope to run this program again! Come back to this page to learn when we will open registration again.
If you missed out on this event but want feedback on your STEM writing, consider booking an appointment! Our staff and peer tutors will help you learn how to revise your drafts.
Program Structure
- February 3rd, 2026 - STEM Genres of Communication - Structure
- Learn how the structure of STEM genres of academic writing influence content and reader expectations. Analyze sample writing with a structure rubric and plan structural revisions for your own writing.
- February 10th, 2026 - Structure: Peer Review
- Use a guided peer review process to receive feedback on your draft and provide feedback on a peer’s structure and organization. This process uses targeted questions to support your review, followed by discussion to clarify feedback, and guided reflection to plan your own revisions.
- February 17th, 2026 - Reading week: No session
- February 24th, 2026: Global Writing Conventions - Paragraph Structure and Cohesion
- Explore global writing conventions to better understand and revise paragraph structure and sectionlevel narrative. Practice these strategies on sample texts, then set paragraphlevel goals for improving your own draft.
- March 3rd, 2026 - Global Writing: Peer Review
- Use a guided peer review process to receive feedback on your draft and provide feedback on a peer’s paragraph cohesion and flow. This process uses targeted questions to support your review, followed by discussion to clarify feedback, and guided reflection to plan your own revisions.
- March 10, 2026 - Local Writing Conventions – Flow, Clarity, and Style
- Explore local revision strategies to refine sentence-level cohesion, precision, and readability in STEM contexts. Practice these techniques on short excerpts, then create a personalized checklist to guide your own editing.
- March 17, 2026 - Local Writing: Peer Review
- Use a guided peer review process to receive feedback on your draft and provide feedback on a peer’s sentence level clarity and flow. This process uses targeted questions to support your review, followed by discussion to clarify feedback, and guided reflection to plan your own revisions.