Peer Review

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Peer Review

• Rhetorical Analysis

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Clean draft 1 25 minutes

• Choose a partner.
• Trade speeches.
• Read each others speeches and jot down a few
  notes on the speakers purpose.
• Read each others essays. paragraphs that are
  insightful and that give an excellent discussion
  of what the author did and why he/she did it.
• Discuss sections of the speech your partner may
  have failed to discuss or sections that your
  partner misunderstood.
• Discuss sections of the essay that were
  excellent.
• Discuss sections of the essay that need more
  analysis or a more thorough explanation.

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Clean draft 2 20 minutes

• Choose a partner.
• Trade speeches.
• Read each others speeches and jot down a few
  notes on the speakers purpose.
• Read each others essays. paragraphs that are
  insightful and that give an excellent discussion
  of what the author did and why he/she did it.
• Discuss sections of the speech your partner may
  have failed to discuss or sections that your
  partner misunderstood.
• Discuss sections of the essay that were
  excellent.
• Discuss sections of the essay that need more
  analysis or a more thorough explanation.

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Clean draft 3 15 minutes

• Look at the text you used in your essay. Did you
  lead into it?
• Ex. Dr. King discusses the great beacon of
  light as a metaphor for hope.
• Ex. His point is made obvious with a no nonsense
  declaration the American high school is
  obsolete and should be abolished (153).
• No sentence should begin with a citation/
• Put periods and commas inside quotation marks.
• Read from back to front. Check for run-on
  sentences. Check for missing commas. After he
  says_____, he continues by claiming __________.