Peer Analysis Questions - Basic Essay Writer: __________________________________________________ Reader: __________________________________________________ Revising Circle responses. 1. How close is this essay to completion? Partially Completed (one to four paragraphs) Totally Completed (five-eight paragraphs) 2. Take a look at the title. Does it pull you in and capture your attention? Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, what title would you give the essay? 3. Take a look at the introduction. Does it capture the reader's attention with one or more of the following: Methods of development like intriguing biography, fascinating question or questions, thought provoking quote or quotes, engaging narration or description, unusual definition, startling fact, or clever comparison or contrast, etc. Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, what would you suggest to make the introduction better? 4. Does the thesis statement give the essay's direction and answer the assignment question? Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, what thesis statement would you give this essay? 5. Are details and examples used well to support the thesis statement? Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, what and where can information be suggested

6. Can you follow logically the pattern or patterns of organization (chronological, emphatic, comparison or contrast, cause or effects etc.) in the essay? Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, how would you rearrange the essay so they make better sense? What would you delete or add? 7. Take a look at the conclusion. How well is it developed? Does it give advice, explain what you have learned from the situation set forth in the essay, solve a problem, answer or poise a question, use a quotation, call for action on the reader's part? Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, what would you suggest to improve the conclusion? Editing 8. As you looked at the essay, did you run across any grammar (fragment, comma-splice, run-on, parallel structure, verb-tense, subject-verb- agreement, pronoun-ant-agreement, etc.) errors in the essay? Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, what would you suggest to improve the grammar problems?

9. As you looked at the essay, did you run across any mechanics errors (punctuation - period, comma, semicolon, etc., capitalization, apostrophes, heading, spacing, margin.)? Excellent Good Fair Poor If fair or poor, what would you suggest to improve the mechanics problems? 10. Does the essay follow MLA (Modern Language Association) format with heading, spacing, indenting paragraphs, citations of support, and Work or Works Cited? Excellent Good Fair Poor If not, where are the problems? Suggest solutions? Any additional comments to the writer: _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________