English 101

Essay II Peer Review

You should have two sheets of paper to write your answers on. One you will keep, the other you will give to your peer review partner. On the sheet you keep, write suggestions for improving your own paper. On the sheet you give your partner, write suggestions for improving their paper.

Instructions

For each item below: which paper (yours or your partner's) needs work in any of these areas? Write suggestions for either or both.

You must write at least two suggestions (two for your own paper, two for your partner's, or one for each) in response to each question below.

Each answer must include specific suggestions for something to add or delete, or for how to rewrite something--not just general comments like "more evidence" or "fix paragraph 2."

If all your comments are about the same paper (for example, you had no suggestions for your partner), write a note explaining that.

Comments in parentheses describe features of a successful paper. If your paper or your partner's does not do any of these things, write suggestions for how to improve them.

  1. Does the paper successfully identify the purpose of the article? (The paper should describe the effect on the reader that the article is trying to produce.)
  2. Does the paper successfully identify a theme of the article? (The paper should clearly identify as the theme a key idea that is present at all points in the article, whether stated directly or implied through descriptions or other techniques.)
  3. Does the paper successfully describe the structure of the article? (The paper should state correctly how many main sections and subsections there are and show clearly where each one begins and ends, using key events or ideas in the reading. Sections should be consecutive--one continuous part of the text, not jumping around to different parts.)
  4. Does the paper explain how each section or subsection relates to the theme? (The paper should show how the reading as a whole develops the theme, with different sections revealing different phases or aspects of the main idea.)
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