*Please Use Your Little Brown Handbook When Editing

*Please Use Your Little Brown Handbook When Editing

AP Seminar Peer Review

*Please use your “Little Brown Handbook” when editing.

**Please answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES.

Name of Peer Editor ______

Name of Writer ______

  1. What is the topic/area of study for this paper?
  1. Describe the effectiveness of the introduction and the “contextualization” of the subject.
  2. Did the author situate the topic/problem?
  3. Did the author introduce any pre-existing arguments/stances?
  4. Was a “setting” identifiable?
  5. Was the introduction interesting? Did it “engage” you as a reader? How/why?
  6. What “background” information was present?
  1. What is the PURPOSE of the paper? Did the author define any key terms, clarify any assumptions or provide summaries of the sources analyzed?
  1. Copy the research question here. If there is not a clearly defined research question, what do you think it is?
  1. Copy the thesis of the paper (Aaron, 14-17):
  1. CLAIM-EVIDENCE-COMMENTARY:
  2. Did the writer use/have effective topic sentences and/or claims?
  3. Did each contain at least one piece of evidence? If so, state the source.
  4. Could you determine if the author’s sources passed the CRAAPP test?
  5. Was commentary provided to introduce/explain/connect the evidence to the claims?
  1. How was their argument?
  2. Could you identify any problems with their logic (fallacies)?
  3. For/against? Pro/con? Positive/negative?
  4. Describe how you understood the argument.
  1. Was a counter-argument present? How did the writer include their counter-argument?
  1. What was the “SO WHAT” or conclusion? Did the writer attempt to present a proposal/call-to-action/solution?
  1. Review the annotated bibliography. Was the citation format correct? Did the annotations provide insight to their decision to use each source? Explain.
  1. Create at least ONE question that you have about their claims/thesis/argument.
  1. Create at least ONE piece of WARM feedback for the writer about their essay.
  1. Do you have any COOL feedback?
  1. Do YOU have a deeper/better understanding of the subject after reading this essay? Explain.
  1. If you had to provide a grade, what would you score this?
  2. Yes, it’s complete and you should get an A/A-/B+ from Harmon
  3. Yes, it’s complete, but you may want to re-write some areas to get a better score
  4. No, it’s not complete, and you should probably consider a re-write
  5. See Harmon ASAP
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