Now that you have submitted drafts of Part 1 of Project #2, let’s share our ideas in the form of offering constructive feedback. That means offering classmates the sense of what they have done well and what needs improvement–but it can also mean just reflecting back to them what you understand and observe as you read their work.
Your homework will be in the form of comments on classmates’ posts. Choose two students to offer your feedback, which you will share as a reply to their Project #2 Part 1 draft post. Please do not give feedback to someone’s work if two classmates already have, unless there are no other classmates to respond to.
In your comment, let your classmate know:
- what you understand to be that pivotal passage in their essay
- what argument they make
- where that argument is stated (although it should be in the introduction, sometimes this doesn’t happen until later, such as in the conclusion! Good to know that now so it can move earlier in the essay!)
- if the examples support the argument
- if you can detect any of the five steps for incorporating quotations in the body paragraphs of the essay, and which ones they are.
- what you think the essay’s so what? is.
- anything else you think is extremely important for them to know about your experience reading their work.
Feel free to ask more questions in the comments–either directed at the classmate who has reviewed your work, or in advance of that to help guide the feedback they offer.
