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PeerReview_CulturalNarrative3.docxFirst-Year Writing
Project 1: Cultural Narrative
Peer Review
Final Submission Due with final draft
A Narrative offers a compelling story about an author’s self-awareness. Authors make deliberate rhetorical choices about what to include (and exclude), in what order, with what language, and to which audience.
Process
1. read papers carefully. (15- min.)
2. Trade papers and discuss feedback
3. Complete the peer review using the criteria on the next page. This review is a tool of communication directed to your partner, not me. Do Not simply answer the questions, instead use them as a guide to help you understand what to look for in the paper.
4. Revise your draft. Use the peer feedback to revise your paper for homework.
5. Final submission: Along with your final paper, include an author’s note and copy of your peer review (i.e., the ones that you wrote for other authors).
6. In your 300-500-word author’s note, discuss how you used the peer review feedback from your partner (or not), additional information that I may find useful in responding to your work, and/or anything in particular you would like me to address in my feedback to you.
Review criteria
Your partner is the audience; use this guide to help with content and structure of your feedback. DO NOT simply answer the questions.
Indicate with brief bullet-points, ways that the writer can improve each section.
: Content
Introduction:
1. Is the topic of the paper clear in the introduction? What made it compelling?
2. Has the author given sufficient information in the introduction to foreshadow or hint a story rather than an essay?
3. Is there a hint of a theme: a point of personal discovery).
4. What should obviously come next?
5. Suggestions for improving the introduction?
Body:
6. Has the paper been arranged in a logical way (subsections or not)? Does this make it easier to engage, or no?
7. What kind of rhetorical choices have been made by the author? This has to do with stylistic choices such as voice, tone, rhetorical appeal.
8. Has the author used appropriate sources to illustrate, explain and support the narrative? Is it descriptive?
9. Do you get an image of who the writer is based on the narrative?
Conclusion/Implications:
10. Has the author achieved some resolution? What has the narrative accomplished?
11. Is there a clear message for the reader?
References: MLA style
12. Has the author referenced sources (must have at least one)? (family, other text)
13. Are those source(s) cited in the works cited page?
Overall Quality of Manuscript
14. Is the writing sufficiently clear, fluent, and engaging? If not, identify areas that are unclear.
15. Does the paper’s a focus seems appropriate to the project’s objectives? Why or why not?
16. Has the paper identified an interesting perspective for sharing their cultural identity and experiences? How so or not?
17. What did you learn in reading this paper?
Advice to Author
What more advice can be offered for improvement?
Précis
18. Provide a summary of the paper (your partner’s paper) in no more than three sentences. [author, date, title, central idea].
