informative essay

English 112 Peer Review Checklist Step 1:

Read the essay through fully without making notes.

Step 2:

Re-read the essay and evaluate each of the following areas use the questions as a guideline. In a well-developed, focused paragraph, address the following criteria with feedback as appropriate.

Introduction / Thesis

Is the introduction well-developed? What opening strategy does it use?

Does it flow smoothly from one sentence to the next, general to specific?

Does it transition to the thesis?

Is the thesis in the proper place? Double underline the thesis.

Does the thesis have a topic and focus (a how or why)? Explain what the how or why is.

Body Paragraphs

Each body paragraph should have a topic sentence and adequate details and subdetails. Body paragraphs are “mini-essays;” the topic sentence provides a specific topic and focus for the paragraph.

Are there at least three body paragraphs?

Does each paragraph begin with a topic sentence that answers the how or why of

the thesis?

Does each topic sentence imply a how or why? explain what the how or why is of each topic sentence in the margin.

Are there an adequate number of details that answer the how or why of the topic

sentence?

Are there an adequate number of subdetails that clarify the details? (subdetails often answer the details!)

Conclusions

Is the conclusion adequately developed or does it just “stop”?

Does the conclusion satisfactorily “conclude” the essay?

As a reader do you feel fulfilled at the end of the essay?

Step 3: Look at the Process of Convincing handout in blackboard. Do you think this essay embodies the qualities of a convincing argument? Why or why not?

Step 4:

Make additional comments that you think would be helpful to the writer of the essay. Keep in mind what the purpose of the essay is. Does the writer fulfill that purpose? Why or why not? Does the writer effectively use the rhetorical appeals? Why or why not? Please be as constructive as you can.