250 words peer review 1 hr

Peer reviewer: Paper author:

For the Reviewer of the Paper

You must answer all questions, but pay closest attention to those that are particularly pertinent to the essay you’re reading—the ones that will most help improve the author’s paper. The most important end of the revision memos is to give valuable feedback to your classmates to help them to revise their papers. Please be as specific as possible in your references to the author’s paper; give quotations from the essay where appropriate.

Questions for the Reviewer of Paper (to write in revision memo):

1. Read the assignment sheet. Did your peer complete all assignment requirements for both parts?

2. What is the research question?

3. Is it answerable in a single paper? Too broad? Too narrow?

4. What is the paper’s thesis?

5. What is the paper’s exigency, or explanation of why it exists/what it is responding to? Is it timely? Is it relevant to issues today?

6. What is the paper’s “plan of attack,” or the steps the author plans to take in order to communicate his or her main point

7. How do the sources address the author’s “plan of attack”?

8. Do all of the sources work toward aiding the thesis in some way?

9. Assess the author’s annotations. Are all summaries clear? Do all annotations explicitly address the source’s role in the paper?

10. Assess the author’s MLA format.

11. Which section(s) of the assignment should the writer focus on for his/her revision? Explain why and offer suggestions.