Po Bronson’s Essay

ENGL092

Peer Review Sheet

Reviewer’s name: ________________________________________________________

1. Read the paper’s title and first paragraph. Answer these questions:

a. Is the title working as a hint that makes you want to know more? We’ll come back to this later, so start thinking about a suggestion for a title to this paper….

b. Are the first one or two sentences of the first paragraph working hard to make a reader interested? Write a few sentences to suggest how the writer could create a stronger introduction that works hard to interest a reader:

c. Does the first paragraph have a thesis statement or “statement of purpose” that tells the reader what to expect from this essay? What is the statement?

d. Do the first paragraph and thesis work together to show the reader the organizational plan for this essay? Do you have a reasonable expectation of what this essay will contain and how the ideas will be presented?

2. Read the paper’s body paragraphs. Answer these questions:

a. Did the organizational plan from the introduction come true? Suggest an improvement or two that the writer can make on the essay’s organization:

b. Did each paragraph contain one idea? Was the main idea of the paragraph stated at each paragraph’s beginning? Suggest some ways that the writer could gain better control of the structure of paragraphs:

c. Did each paragraph develop that main idea through illustrations, examples, descriptions, little stories that related to the overall point, and so on? Suggest some strategies the writer could use to develop ideas:

3. Read the concluding paragraph. Answer these questions:

a. Do you feel like the writer has tied up all loose ends, but hasn’t simply rewritten the paper in a few sentences? Suggest a way that the writer could make a better conclusion:

b. Go back to the title of this paper. You’ve read the whole essay, so suggest a title that you think works for essay’s ideas:

c. Last, but hardly...