WRPR115A
PEER REVIEW WORKSHEET
Mid-Draft
Doug Davis
Preparing for a
Workshop. Remember that
in addition to exercising your own analytical abiltities,
your purpose is to help each writer fulfill the potential of his or her
draft—never just criticize but make a suggestion about how he or she might revise.
And make sure to be supportive: this is hard stuff we’re all trying to do.
Based on your comments, our discussion with the author in tutorial, and my own
evaluation of the papers, I’ll be asking each of you to prepare a final,
ready-for-grading, draft of the paper.
Please complete
this review sheet for each of the
papers in your tutorial group (after reading the attached Word files or
LiveJournal entries) and bring either this printed and completed worksheet or a
laptop/PDA version of same to the tutorial meeting in my office. We’ll have
about 10-15 minutes to discuss each paper, so we’ll need these notes to move
the discussion along.
My colleagues who
have used this method before suggest that you spend roughly 20 minutes with
each paper. I suggest that before you start you re-read the assignment. (for
the
WRITER:________________________
RESPONDER: ____________________
1.
Which
particular parts of the draft do you find especially promising? List ideas,
phrases, images, etc.
2.
Where
do you get confused?
3.
Is a central claim or thesis evident in the draft
(recall the difference between a topic and a claim)? If so, what is it? (That’s right, repeat it
as best you can here.)
4. What kinds of
support are used to develop the main claim?
Which specific parts deserve more support? And what do you
want to hear more about?
5.
On the draft, put a question mark next to any
sentences or paragraphs that don’t seem to contribute in a meaningful way to
the argument.
6. List 2 or 3 questions for the writer or suggestions for the draft (use other side as necessary).