ENGL 126: The Omnivore’s Dilemma Peer Review Sheet

Writer’s Name:__________________ Reader’s Name:___________________

The purpose of peer review is for you to help each other advance beyond the current draft toward the finished paper. To best achieve this purpose, try first to describe what this draft is doing and then move on to suggestions for making the paper more effective. Your goal is not to judge but rather to mirror and offer specific advice. For this week’s workshop (11/6-11/8), upload your draft. After you upload your draft, you’ll be randomly assigned to review drafts of two of your classmates’ papers, and you’ll find them at the same link where you submitted your paper, in the side bar. View the draft by clicking on it, and respond to it by writing in the side bar or adding an attachment in the window that opened up when you clicked on the draft. Use the form below to respond to the draft.

By Wed. 11/6: Upload rough Draft of Essay #2.

By Fri. 11/8 at midnight: Responses due to two other

students’ drafts from your editing team. Obtain the drafts and respond to them on the sidebar of this assignment.

Peer Editing Instructions:

1. Read through the draft quickly. If you’re having trouble focusing, read the essay outloud.

General Comment: Write a quick list of dominant impressions. What stands out? What examples or phrases are particularly vivid? What strikes you as most illuminating about the analysis? What do you like about the draft?): ____________________________________

1. Read silently through the paper again. What is the strong point of this paper?

1. Describe how the writer introduces the subject and purpose of the paper. More specifically, state the thesis or what you think the writer’s thesis should be. What would make the introduction more effective and engaging?

1. Describe how the writer offers clear and helpful summary of Pollan’s chapter or thread of ideas to create a stage or setting for the rhetorical analysis, research on a thread, OR meal analysis.

1. Describe how the writer lays out and analyzes Pollan’s persuasive strategies in the ase of rhetorical analysis AND/OR main ideas. Does the writer consistently use appropriate quotations from the book to develop the rhetorical analysis, analysis of a thread, or meal analysis? How can the writer provide deeper insight into the chapter, thread, or meal?

1. For topic 1, describe the audience implied by Pollan’s chapter and how Pollan’s strategies suggest that audience’s values, beliefs, and assumptions. For topic 2, how has the writer incorporated research (2 outside sources)? For topic 3, how has the writer included vivid narration in a unified overall analysis of an important aspect of The Omnivore’s Dilemma?

1. What new insight does this paper give or suggest?

1. What 2-3 suggestions can you make for improvement?

Impressions and outline of the draft: