Frank Communications Center

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)

FAQ

First-time Users

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) is an Internet-based program enabling you to learn critical writing/editing skills. It's fast and it's fun.

Why CPR? CPR helps students learn critical editing skills that will make them effective professional writers. Students will learn to do the following:

  • Get to their points quickly
  • Make sentences active
  • Rid sentences of unnecessary words, clichés, and jargon
  • Focus a paragraph with a strong, assertive topic sentence

How does CPR work?

PART 1: You'll be given a text to edit OR a paragraph to write. You'll submit that text by deadline to the CPR program (all deadlines in CPR are final.).

PART 2:

  • You will be given three calibration texts (based on the same assignment you just completed).
  • For each calibration text, you'll answer a series questions and then you will SCORE the document on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being "best").
  • After you complete the calibration, CPR will ask you to review the texts of 3 classmates. You'll answer the same questions about each text as you did for the calibrations—and then you'lll score your classmates' texts.
  • Finally, CPR presents you with your own text to score.

For more information, see the CPR Student User's Guide that your Foundations of Business instructor has uploaded to ICON.