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Assignment - Responding to Other Students Writing Book Questions

Description - Your goal as a reader is to help the writer understand how well he or she is responding to the rhetorical situation, or the audience, genre, and purpose of the text. Take a look at Straub's "Responding -Really Responding - to Other Student's Writing" (please find the document in the drop box), and how we can do effective peer reviews for our peers. Concentrate on the large picture: the paper's focus; the content; the writer's voice. Don't worry about errors and punctuation problems yet.

Ask yourself: What kind of writing does the assignment call (or allow) for? Consider how well your peer's paper meets the demands of the kind of writing the writer is taking up.

Who is the intended audience for the annotations? What specific language in the text tells you that? If you can't tell who the audience is, why not? How does the writer help the audience understand what they are trying to convey?

What does the writer want to accomplish in the annotations? Hone in on the writer's particular aims in the writing and think about what the goals of this assignment are. Does the writer clearly indicate they understand why we're doing this type of research? Do the annotations provide strong, useful information about the sources or is the writing vague and unspecific?

How is the writer trying to persuade or show the audience what he/she is thinking? How is the text organized? Does the organization align with the audience expectations, and the purpose for the text? How would you suggest revising the structure or style of the text in order to better meet audience expectations?

Do the annotations follow the outline of requirements from the prompt? Are the sources from the library or do they explain clearly where the sources are from?

What are we missing from the paper prompt? What aspects have been addressed, what haven't? Could we use more information? Are all four aspects of the annotations fulfilled (citation on top, all three paragraphs of examining the source included)? How specific is this paper?

Now that you've considered these questions, write an analysis of the text answering the questions above; don't answer every question, but look at how the questions might guide you to looking at the paper as a whole. Remember, analysis explains how something is put together. It doesn't judge or evaluate. Write your analysis here, using Straub's ideas to provide a well rounded explanation of your answers to the questions above.

Describe three aspects of the text that are successful or promising so far and why they work.

Describe three areas you think the writer should work on next as part of the overall writing process.