Draft 1-2 Peer Response and Writer's Review

1. SAYBACK the Essay Question and the Claim (thesis). Can you offer any comments or suggestions on these two?

2. Create a DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE by detailing what each paragraph SAYS and DOES.

3. POINT to the paragraph you think is the strongest? Why? What is it doing in its support that seems stronger?

4. POINT to a paragraph that you think is weaker? Why? What is it doing in its support that seems less strong?

5. What overall impressions or feedback can you offer the writer?

Draft 1-2 Writer's Review

Topic:
Look at your own essay in the context of our class review of a few of your peers' essays. What stands out at you as far as what you need to do to revise this essay? What do you think you are doing well so far and perhaps could even improve upon? Think on the page and dialogue with yourself about how you will go about putting together the final draft of this essay (due next Tuesday).

(I encourage you to "almost freewrite" these Writer's Reviews. By "almost freewrite" I mean to try to write continuously for a full 20 minutes, but there may be times when you may pause to think or look again at your essay. That's ok. But as in freewriting, "think on the page" and don't worry about any notions of grammatical correctness or form or continuity. Also, don't censure yourself (as much as that is possible). You are writing to yourself for your own purposes. If you remember our Lego theory of writing as forming and shaping and constructing, you want in this kind of freewriting Writer's Review to let yourself form and shape impressions, insights, and plans for your own activity of writing.)