PAPER #1: PEER REVIEW
Your Name: __________________________ Writer of Paper: __________________________________
Please exchange papers with a new partner, not the person who read your first paper. At the top of your partner's paper, please write "Read by _______" and put your name in the blank. Read and mark the paper for strengths, weaknesses, errors, and areas that need clarification. Then answer the following questions:
1. Format: Please put a "yes" or "no" next to each item to inidcate if the writer followed format.
| Has page numbers with last name on every page | The Margins are 1" top. bottom, left, right. | ||
| Use Times New Roman 12pt font | The works cited page starts at the top of a new page. | ||
| Title is centered, properly capitalied, and NOT underlined, bolded, quoted, italicized or enlarged. | Each item on the works cited page uses a hanging indent. | ||
| Information block has proper information and has only single-spaced blank lines between each item. | Works cited entries are arranged alphabetically and NOT numbered. | ||
| Spacing above and below title is one single-spaced blank line only each. | Works Cited Page has a page number. | ||
| There are no extra gaps beween paragraphs. | The Works Cited title is centered, properly capitalied, and NOT underlined, bolded, quoted, italicized or enlarged. |
2. Please state the subject and thesis of the paper using the following template: "The author is writing about _____________. His/her specific claim is that ______________ is true about _______________ [the subject]. Then comment on this thesis: is it specific enough? Is it clear? If not, how else might the author state it?
3. On a separate sheet of paper, write an outline of the paper's body. For each body paragraph, indicate the following in the outline:
- The central topic of the paragraph.
- The claim made in the paragraph.
- The relationship between the paragraph's claim and the overall thesis of the paper.
- The word or phrase that creates the transition at the start of the paragraph.
- The major evidence of the paragraph
- An evaluation of the analysis of the evidence: does the writer discuss each piece of evidence in the paragraph sufficiently?
- Verifies that the end of each paragraph does not start the next paragraph.
- Comments on any improvements that need to be made to the paragraph.
4. Write a paragraph-long note that outlines the major strengths of the paper and what changes should be made to the content and organization to improve it.