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Tracy Mendham
Peer Feedback Form for Introductory Paragraph
The purpose of this assignment is to enable you to support your classmate during the beginning stages of the semester-long research and writing project. In your answers to the questions, please write as complete a response as you can for each one, writing in complete sentences (except for the yes/no questions).
Date: ______Your name: ______
Person’s name whose paper you are reviewing: ______
Title: What is the title of your classmate’s essay? Do you think it is a fitting title? Why or why not? If your classmate's essay does not have a title, please suggest one.
Topic: What technology or technologies—what specific forms of social computing—is your classmate going to investigate in their essay?
What marginalized groups is your classmate’s essay going to discuss?
Claim: What is your classmate’s claim? Write down your classmate’s claim or thesis statement. (If the claim is not clear to you, say why not.)
Arguability: Is the claim debatable? That is, could a reasonable person disagree with your classmate’s claim? Yes/No
What position might someone who disagrees with your classmate take?
What’s interesting? What do you find most interesting about your classmate’s proposed topic?
What’s best? What do you think is the best thing about the work your classmate has done so far?
What would your first step be? If you were writing on the same topic as your classmate, what would be your next step in researching or writing this essay? (Please be specific and detailed. What would you look up and where? Who would you talk to? What would you experiment with? What would you start writing?)
Format: Is the page layout appropriate?
- Is the essay double-spaced, with the last name and the page number in a header on the upper right-hand corner of each page? Yes/No
- Are the author’s name, instructor’s name, course and date in the upper left-hand corner of the first page? Yes/No
- Would you guess it’s 11 point font? Yes/No
- Would you guess that the margins are one inch wide on all four sides? Yes/No
Documentation: Does your classmate’s project have a Works Cited list attached? Yes/No
- Are the entries in it listed in alphabetical order? Yes/No
- Are the titles of books, websites, and journals in italics or underlined? Yes/No
- Are the titles of essays, articles, and web pages in quotation marks? Yes/No
- Has your classmate used a hanging indent for the entries? Yes/No
What else? What else would you like to add that has not been covered in the statements above.
When you are done, please return the completed peer review form and his/her introductory paragraph to your classmate. He/she will attach it to the instructor draft of their introductory paragraph when it is turned in next week.