Remembering Essay Peer Review Response
After reading the papers in your group, select one to wrote
overall remarks about the questions below.
Be very careful to make certain every one in
your group is getting a response. In other words, in a group of three, if
two members exchange papers for responses and leave the third member out, the
requirements of this assignment are not being met.
Please should
write AT LEAST 150 words in your response, and provide specific observations
which include the following:
- Based only on your reading of the introduction, what
dominant idea is stated or suggested in this essay?
- Identify the main change, contrast, or conflict in the
essay.
- Most essays can be brought to life with dialogue. Consider
suggesting one or two bits of dialogue for this essay.
- Could the essay be improved by the addition of sensory details, similes, metaphors, dialogue, some sort of learning experience, or resolution,
and transitional phrases from beginning to end that "lead"
your reader through events and to the resolution?
- What kind of tone does this essay have? Is the tone
consistent with the writer’s purpose? Why or why not?
Here are several sample responses. Look them over to see what is helpful and
what is NOT.
First Response
Second Response
Third Response
