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. In the introduction, underline the sentence that best describes the claim being made in the paper. Restate that claim in the margin beside the introduction. If there is no clear thesis, say so in order to warn the writer that he or she needs to come up with one.
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.
- Verify that each quote has a signal phrase, the actual quote, a citation, and discussion/analysis. If the quote has all four parts, put a check next to the citation. If it does not, put an X next to the citation and write what is missing from the quote.
- Next to each quote, indicate if the quote and analysis support the claim made in the paragraph. If it doesn't, say so.
- Flip to the works cited page and check to see if the citation for the quote lines up with a source listed alphabetically on the works cited page. Check off the works cited page entry if it matches. If there is no citation (or you can't locate it), write "not on works cited page" next to the quote's citation.