What Aspects Of Content And Organization Did Your Partner Do Well On?
Peer Review Report Form
Your Name: Your Partner’s Name:
Part 1: Content & Organization
Read through your partner’s essay and focus on content and organization.
First, write a reverse outline of your partner’s essay in the space below:
Based on this reverse outline, do you notice any areas for improvement? Consider the following:
• Introduction: enticing hook, good summary, clear thesis statement with an original argument
• Body Paragraphs: topic sentences that connect to the thesis, one main argument per paragraph, clear evidence and explanations, logical paragraph order, transitions within and between paragraphs
• Conclusion: restated thesis, summary of the entire essay, broader implications
Summarize your findings:
1. What aspects of content and organization did your partner do well on? 2. What aspects of content and organization need work? What suggestions do you have to help your partner address these issues? Part 2: Language
Read your partner’s essay again and focus on grammar and vocabulary. Pay attention to:
• Sentence variety• Run-ons, comma splices, or fragments• Verb tenses (consistency and shifting)• Subject-verb agreement• Transition words, adverbials, and prepositional phrases• Structures for concession and counterargument• Verbs for summarizing others’ arguments• Templates for explaining “they say/I say”• Other…?
Summarize your findings:
1. What aspects of grammar and/or vocabulary did your partner do well on?
2. What are 2-4 issues with grammar or vocabulary that you noticed? Provide examples and suggest what your partner can do to address these issues.
Your Name: Your Partner’s Name:
Part 1: Content & Organization
Read through your partner’s essay and focus on content and organization.
First, write a reverse outline of your partner’s essay in the space below:
* How twitter has achieved a revolution globally.
* How twitter has changed the world.
* Malcom Gladwell’s assertion of a social revolution brought about by the social media.
* Historical developments in relation to social media. Does it really have such a huge impact?- The protest movements and how they pooled up.
* Twitter revolution-Its relevance, proof.
* Personal example.
Based on this reverse outline, do you notice any areas for improvement? Consider the following:
* Introduction: enticing hook, good summary, clear thesis statement with an original argument
* Body Paragraphs: topic sentences that connect to the thesis, one main argument per paragraph, clear evidence and explanations, logical paragraph order, transitions within and between paragraphs
* Conclusion: restated thesis, summary of the entire essay, broader implications
Summarize your findings:
1. What aspects of content and organization did your partner do well on?
I find the introductory bit to be quite well done. There is indeed that essence of purpose and clarity with the way the topic is brought out. One can quickly and easily know the aim of the paper from the first three lines of the introduction. It satisfies the aim of an introduction, as it announces to the reader, what the rest of the paper is going to be about.
2. What aspects of content and organization need work? What suggestions do you have to help your partner address these issues?
* There are a few aspects of the content that need a little more polishing up to do. First, is the way in which the clarity of the main points of discussion. There seems to be a complete mix-up of ideas throughout the paper. There is no clear flow of points in terms of the systematic listing and description of each. As a result, the entire paper reads a little confusing. In order to avoid this, there is need to first of all note down the points to be d...