WRITE YOUR NAME ON YOUR RESPONSE, SO YOU GET CREDIT FOR IT WHEN THE WRITER TURNS IT IN. 

Answer the following questions as thoroughly as you can (one or two words or a sentence is not sufficient).  Remember, your primary goal is to help the writer, so do your best to be constructively critical as well as encouraging.  Write out your answers on a separate sheet of paper and give it to the writer, who will turn it in with her paper on Monday.

At this point we are REVISING, which means focusing on Higher Order Concerns – the overall meaning and rhetorical effectiveness of the writing. On Monday we will focus on EDITING Lower Order Concerns: fixing grammar, mechanics, spelling, and so on.  Don’t worry about your peers’ grammar today; concentrate on meaning.  

1.  Where can the writer use some more invention work?  In other words, what are some topics in the paper that you would like to hear more about?  

2.  Where are the places where the writer runs the risk of being sidetracked, getting off the subject, or including too much information?

3.  What's the strongest part of this paper?  Why?  Where in the rest of the paper could the writer use similar strategies?

4.  Do you get a feeling for the person behind the paper?  What kind of ethos does the writer present?  Note to writer:  If the answer to this question doesn’t match what you were aiming for, please discuss this thoroughly with your workshop partners.

5.  What are the three most important things that you can think of that the writer needs to do before the paper is due on Monday?

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