Peer Review for Amanda Rosemary

Peer Review Worksheet: Rhetorical Analysis As you read your peer's draft, please keep the following questions in mind as a guide. Feel free to talk to your peer, asking questions and making verbal comments as necessary, and feel free to mark directly on your peer's draft. However, keep in mind that centralizing your comments on this sheet will probably be most helpful as your peer revises for the turn-in final draft. As a reminder, please make your comments substantive, with specific references to the draft itself! Can you identify the writer's main claim/thesis about what's happening rhetorically in the document? If so, mark it on the draft and write or summarize it on this worksheet. If not, what do you believe it should be, and where should it appear? On the draft, mark specific examples that the writer uses to support her/his thesis, and summarize them on this sheet.

Do you believe the writer's main claim/thesis is adequately supported? Do you see other examples of the strategy/ies in the document that s/he misses? If so, mark them on the document and summarize them on this sheet.

Does the writer use a compelling introduction? Does it set an historical stage and/or lead with an attention-grabbing example from the chosen text, for instance? How could the writer write the introduction differently? Does the writer conclude effectively? Does s/he summarize or restate the main claim/thesis? Does s/he make an appropriate evaluative comment about the example? How could s/he write the conclusion differently? Choose one paragraph from the middle of the document. Thinking about what you've learned about rhetoric and writing, do the writer's sentences make sense? Are they structured so they are understandable? What is especially effective or ineffective? Look at the paragraph you chose and the paragraph just before or after it. Does the writer's writing “flow”? That is, is it cohesive in the terms that the text lays out? If not, where does cohesion break down? If so, where does it seem to be especially strong?