Please use one of these questionaires to respond to your partner's paper. Be as clear and helpful as you can and write in complete sentences. When you have finished your review, give your resonses to your partner so he/she can use it while making revisions.
Peer Response Questionaire: Paragraph
- Does the paragraph have a topic sentence? If yes, what is it? What direction will the paragraph take based on the topic sentence?
- How is the paragraph developed? Are the supporting sentences clear? Do they provide enough information?
- Are transition words used to help the reader move through the paragraph?
- Is the paragraph grammatically and mechanically correct? If there are errors, please underline them for the author.
- What's the most effective part of this paragraph? What's the least effective?
- What advice do you have for the author to improve this paragraph?
Peer Response Questionaire: General Paper
- Mark the parts of the draft that are strongest. Why do you think they are strong?
- Mark the parts of the draft that gave you trouble. What about them made it hard for you as the reader to understand?
- Underline sentences that confuse you. In the margin write what you think the author is trying to say.
- Circle the topic sentences. Do all paragraphs support the topic? If not, mark which ones do not.
- Write one question at the end of each paragraph. Try to think of questions that ask for more information or for clarification of any idea, but the questions can also be about sentence style, sequence of ideas, or word choice.
- Suggest a more exciting way to begin the essay.
- Suggest a more interesting title.
- What does the writer tell you that you didn't know? If the writer has merely restated the obvious, suggest ways that the writer can get beyond the obvious.
Peer Response Questionaire: Literature Response Paper
- How does the author introduce the topic? Is it interesting?
- Does the author include the name of the text and the author's name early in the paper?
- What is the thesis of this paper? Do the body paragraphs support and develop that thesis?
- Does each paragraph have a topic sentence? Are the paragraphs developed fully?
- Does the author use transition words in the paragraphs? Are transitions used to help the reader move from paragraph to paragraph?
- Does the author refer to specific incidents in the text to develop his/her thesis?
- Are materials pulled from the text quoted correctly?
- What, if any, are the paper's main grammar concerns? Be specific.
- What, if any, are the paper's main punctuation concerns?
- What do you suggest the writer do to strengthen this draft?
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