Peer Editing Worksheet
For those of you who missed class or mislaid your peer editing worksheet, this is a template providing a series of questions the answers to which will generate a thorough and useful peer edit for your colleagues. Peer Editing Worksheet A peer edit is not an itemized list of broad impressions, problems, or compliments, but should represent a sustained and sympathetic argumentative engagement with the text you are reading. Editors, you should provide comments in the form of a long paragraph (at least) that clearly answers all or most of the following questions: 1. What is your own name? 2. What is the name of the paper's author? 3. What is the title of the paper? 4. Did the paper satisfy the expectations raised in its title? ** 5. In your own words, state what you think to be the thesis of the paper in one or two sentences.** 6. Was this thesis expressed clearly in the paper itself? 7. Is this a strong thesis? 8. Why or why not? 9. Can you imagine an intelligent o