ap draft peer review

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Part 2: PEER REVIEW (We’ll go over this in class on the Monday of Week 8):

Everyone will provide feedback on two of their colleagues’ drafts, and everyone will receive feedback from two classmates on their own draft. Plan to spend thirty-five minutes per paper. I recommend setting a timer. Don’t forget to save your work!

AP Peer Review Instruction Sheet

REMEMBER:

  • Balance praise and constructive criticism.
  • Don’t be skimpy — write out full sentences and ask questions.
  • Your job is comprehension, not evaluation: have a conversation with the text, asking questions as you read.
  • Do not comment on grammar, typos, or spelling errors.
  • Do not line edit within the text or make any changes to the text. Your feedback should be in the form of marginal and summary comments only.
  • Your job as a reader is to help the writer understand how their writing is being received by their audience.

Summary Comments Guide

At the end of the paper (below where your classmate put their instructions for feedback), copy and paste the following questions on to the page. Write your name and answer the following questions.

Reader name: [type your name here]

  1. Write down any and all questions you have as a reader. What intrigues you? What do you want to know more about?
  2. What is working well in this paper?
  3. What could still be working better in this paper? In particular, are there any places in the paper where more explanation of a claim, idea, quote, or example would help you understand its larger significance — especially with how this claim, idea, quote, or example fits into the writer’s larger argument? Or, think about overall organization and paragraph structure. Would any edits to topic sentences, paragraph division, or transitions help the writer guide the reader through their argument?
  4. Respond to any other feedback the writer requested.