For this assignment, please use the numbered points below to help inform your response to 1 of your peers’ Rough Drafts and your own paper.

You DO NOT have to address all 10 questions. These are just to help you focus your review and your comments.

You will have to complete a short summary of this “exchange” with a peer, the Writing Center, or me.

The Assignment: Find one peer to work with for this assignment (can be from our course or with someone in your life you trust with this review of your work), OR go to the Writing Center, OR discuss your paper with me via Zoom. One of these three completed options will earn the 5 points for this assignment.

Peer-review Worksheet

1. What aspects of the letter’s argument are most convincing? How could they be improved or expanded in the paper?
2. What aspects of the letter’s argument (what parts) are least convincing?
3. Do you feel the letter is lacking any discussion, issues or topics we discussed in class?
4. Having heard my clarification of the need for specific evidence in terms of course work, faculty and other relevant and interesting academic evidence or experience, does the writer seem to have done enough work on this specialized and even technical research and writing? This really concerns the “authority” of the writer. Has he or she established a knowledgeable persona, one who can speak to the richness of the experience in this major and discipline?
5. How are the transitions between sections/topics/arguments/paragraphs? Do you have any feedback on the “flow” of the letter.
6. How would you evaluate the writer’s use of outside sources? Do you sense a need for more specific references? Do you sense any “accidental” plagiarism (need for citation)?
7. Do you see some obvious sentence-level errors, such as run-on sentences, fragments, or simply sentences (parts of paragraphs) that don’t seem very clear or concise? Sometimes simply pointing-out that the writing is confusing, or wordy is enough to get the writer to review some of his/her writing.
8. Do the paragraphs seem to have a solid focus and structure? Again, make a note on this part of the writing, reflecting on some of our discussion in class.
9. Is there a sense of ethos not only in the writer (knowledge, experience, passion and values), but also in the work done in that major or field/discipline? Ethos should emanate from the writer and, in this case, his or her major/department, as well.
10. Do you have any feedback on the paper format? In the end, this is a 4-5 page paper, not including the Works Cited page, double-spaced (pretty much in MLA format). Do they seem on track to write a paper that addresses the prompt in 4-5 pages? Anything else about the format?

I hope all of that is clear.

Again:

1. Use either a peer in our class (or someone you know) to exchange drafts, OR go to the Writing Center, OR meet with me via a Zoom conference (sign-up sheet on Canvas)
2. To receive the 5 points, provide a short paragraph in this assignment portal summarizing the peer review experience you had with a peer, the Writing Center, or me. Include a few important details about the exchange, what you focused on, etc. For the Writing Center option, include proof that you met with a tutor.