Writer’s Name _________________ Reader’s Name _________________
Writer: Before you exchange, identify here any specific questions/concerns or places in your draft you want your
reader to respond to in particular. Also, identify for your reader your specific
audience and purpose in writing to that audience.
Reader: Read through the draft once to get an overall sense of what the
paper is addressing; read for meaning.
Read through a second time, annotate and respond to the following questions.
1.
After
reading the entire draft, summarize in your own words the writer’s thesis (or
overall claim). What particular
cultural message (or related messages) is the writer centering the analysis on,
and what does the writer see this text “doing” with that message (or related
messages) in a cultural sense? What
suggestions do you have for how the writer might strengthen or narrow the focus
further? Does the focus display a clear
sense of the purpose for this assignment?
Explain.
2.
Mark
a (?) in any place in the draft that
seems tangential or unrelated (or less clearly-related) to the overall focus of
the paper and explain below why you think this section may stray from that
focus.
3.
Mark
at least one effective piece of “textual” evidence with a (*), and then explain below why you found that evidence
effective. Also, mark at least one
effective piece of “outside” evidence and explain why/how it helps develop the
thesis.
4.
Write
(MORE) in any place (identify at
least one) in the draft that you think could use more evidence, and then
explain below what that place could use to allow the reader to more easily
understand the writer’s argument.
5.
Write
(EXPLAIN) next to any point or
evidence that isn’t clearly or fully explained in terms of the overall purpose
and thesis. That is, how does this
point/evidence connect to the writer’s overall claim—what he or she wants to
argue about the way this text responds to it’s cultural context, and why that’s
significant?
6.
List
below at least 2 strengths of this draft, and explain briefly why these aspects
of the paper are working well.
7.
List
your 3 main suggestions for revision
here. Be specific.