Peer Critique:  Essay 2, Profile

Please read your peer’s draft and answer the following questions thoughtfully and thoroughly on a separate sheet of paper.  USE COMPLETE SENTENCES.  Simple “yes” and “no” answers are not acceptable.  Your response must be typed.  This is not a test to see if you have done things “correctly”; rather, this is an opportunity for you to receive responses and feedback about what you have written from a reader who is familiar with the goals of this assignment.

After you have finished with your response, make sure your name is on the critique you have written.  You will then give it back to the author, and the author will read it and make necessary revisions.  Each author should have a peer critique with a name on it in his or her folder when turning in the position paper.  I will look for the name on your sheet and give the appropriate person credit for completing the critique.

1.  Does the essay opening make you want to know about the person

    portrayed? If so, how has the author interested you? If not, what gets in

    your way?

2.  What seems to make the person interviewed interesting to the writer?

3.  What is the writer's dominant impression of the person interviewed?

4.  Does the writer include any details that contradict or are unrelated to the

    dominant impression or insight?

5.  Do the quoted words for reported speech "sound" real to you? Do any

    quotations seem at odds with the dominant impression of the person?

6.  Would you leave out any of the conversation the writer used? Mark

    anything that you would omit.

7.  Do you have any questions about the person interviewed that aren't

    answered?

8.  If this were your paper, what is the one thing you would be sure to work on

    before handing it in?