Robin Hood replay

Write a Dear Reader Letter to your assigned peer group answering these questions:

· What are the strengths of your draft?

· What are the problems of the draft?

· What challenges did you encounter writing the draft?

· What is your thesis?

· If you had 2 more days to write this draft, where would you focus your attention?

· What questions are you asking about your draft that you want to make sure your readers answer?

· Write notes in the margins to your readers in the draft itself for places where you want particular help, such as the following:

· Aspects of the paper that you think don’t work

· Gaps in your paper

· Sentences that don’t sound right to you, but you don’t know how or what to change

Here are some examples of the types of points you might make in either your Dear Reader letter or marginal notes (or both):

“Gentle Readers: I know that I need to make a logical connection between my sections on Chinese foot-binding and Ottoman foot fetishes, but I haven’t come up with a good argument.  Any ideas?”

“Dear Everybody: I didn’t have time to write this section yet, but this is where I’m going to introduce the new evidence concerning Mongolian horse worship.”