Essay for Peer Review

ENG-105 Peer Review Worksheet: Commentary

Part of your responsibility as a student in this course is to provide quality feedback to your peers that will help them to improve their writing skills. This worksheet will assist you in providing that feedback.

Name of the draft’s author: James Washington

Name of the peer reviewer: Walter Burrier

Reviewer

After reading through the draft one time, write a summary (3-5 sentences) of the paper that includes your assessment of how well the essay meets the assignment requirements as specified in the syllabus and the rubric.

The essay meets a lot of the requirements on the rubric, but I do think it needs some work. There are formatting issues and a few grammatical errors, but overall the essay is good. It explains why some people think that a lot of the diagnosis that floats around is false.

After a second, closer reading of the draft, answer each of the following questions. Positive answers will give you specific elements of the draft to praise; negative answers will indicate areas in need of improvement and revision. Please be sure to indicate at least three positive aspects of the draft and at least three areas for improvement in reply to the questions at the bottom of this worksheet.

Commentary Content and Ideas

* How effectively does the thesis statement identify the main points that the writer would like to make in this commentary?

I could not really identify the thesis statement.

* How descriptive is the writer’s choice of a label to name the issue in question?

The label is actually very effective

* How effectively does the writer frame an issue at the beginning of the essay?

The issue is framed very definitively

* How effective is the writer’s analysis of the issue in terms of causes and consequences?

The effectiveness of the analysis in terms of causes and consequences leaves a little to be desired. Needs to be broader and the essay seems a little short.

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