first essay peer review (submit essay for peer review here)
- Due Jan 28, 2019 by 5p.m.
- Points 0
- Submitting a text entry box or a file upload
- File Types doc, docx, odt, and pdf
- Available Jan 4, 2019 at 12a.m. - Feb 15, 2019 at 11:59p.m.
Please submit your first essay here for peer review, due Jan. 28 by 5pm.
Don't include your name or student number! This is an anonymous peer review.
Either copy/paste your essay into the box here (without your name or student number) or attach as a MS Word (.doc, .docx), Open Office (.odt), or PDF file.
Be sure to fill out all parts of the rubric for the essay you're reading.
Note that once you click "save" or "submit," you can't edit the rubric again (at least this was the case last year and I'm not sure if it has been fixed yet or not)! If you want to add more after you've saved, then just add comments in the other place you can leave comments, outside the rubric.
Marking
Marks for peer feedback are explained and recorded on a different assignment (due to the limitations with how Canvas deals with peer review assignments...sorry, it's too complicated to explain here!): the assignment about peer feedback and self assessment.
You do get marks for doing peer feedback (3 marks possible), and they do count for part of your final mark. See the above-linked assignment page for an explanation.
Rubric
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Organization
Please answer at least two of the following questions:
* Is there an introduction and conclusion? Does the author do a good job of introducing the essay and closing it out, or are there improvements that might be made?
* Is the thesis statement clear? Does it cover all of the main points argued for in the essay?
* Can you follow the thread of the argument throughout the essay, or is it sometimes hard to follow where the essay is going?
* Do the paragraphs seem to cohere well together to support the thesis, or are one or more paragraphs going in a different direction?
* Are there clear topic sentences for each paragraph that give the main point of each paragraph?
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Strength of argument
Please answer at least two of the following questions:
* Is there anything in the thesis statement that is not supported with arguments in the rest of the essay?
* Is there anything in the essay that doesn’t seem necessary to supporting the thesis?
* Does the essay provide adequate textual support for claims made about the text, whether through quotes or paraphrases?
* Are there any serious objections to claims or arguments in the essay that the author should have considered?
* Does the essay explain the texts well enough given the audience you were to assume? (people who aren’t taking the course)
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Insight
Does the essay provide some original thoughts on the texts and topics under discussion, beyond only repeating what has been said by the instructor about them? For the first essay, there is less room for this than for the second, but you could comment on whether there are at least some original thoughts in the essay.
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Style & Mechanics
* Is the writing clear, without too many obscure words or long, complex sentence structures that make the essay difficult to read?
* Are there enough grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors to be distracting, or to make the essay hard to understand?
* Are sources cited when they need to be? For example, are there page references for quotes and for paraphrases of specific claims and arguments from the texts? Is there a Works Cited section for sources not assigned for class?
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