FIPE Peer Sheet

Assignment Two The Culture of Engineering: Myths, Stereotypes, and Truth

Writer’s Name______Reviewer’s Name______

This peer review sheet is designed to help you pinpoint how well your peer(s) met the goals for the first assignment. It only works if you are honest about the work in front of you. You must assess whether the writers have met the goals by reading their assignments as carefully as we will. Be as helpful and honest as you hope your peers will be with your own work.

Directions:

  1. Read through the paper
  2. Number paragraphs and write in the margin of each paragraph what ideas are discussed in the paragraph
  3. Fill out the peer review sheet

Goal: To create a purposeful, interesting profile

  1. What stereotypes does the writer say are applied to engineers and what source does he or she use for this?
  1. Who did the writer interview for the profile and what is his or her position and company?
  1. How does the writer’s engineer disprove the stereotype?
  1. What did you find interesting or unusual about the engineer the writer profiled?
  1. What pattern of organization has the writer employed (day in the life or topical)? Why does this organization work or not work and what improvements could you suggest?

Goal: To write to a specific audience other than the teacher

  1. How does the writer begin the profile? Would readers of Newsweek be persuaded to read the article based on the opening paragraph? What might the writer add and why?
  1. What is the writer’s controlling idea in this profile (thesis)? How and why might this be revised?
  1. Which paragraphs do not open well or need a stronger topic sentence?
  1. Are there paragraphs that do not make logical sense because of the wording or ordering of sentences? Write the number of those paragraphs

Goal: To present a claim and support that claim through evidence

  1. Does the writer draw on the interview, the presentation, and least 3 readings in the profile for additional support?
  1. Where would you add additional support from the sources and why? What specifically would you add?
  1. The most interesting part of the profile was:
  1. The most problematic part of the profile was: