Example Peer Response Questions
Peer Response Questions
for Essay #1
1) POINT to places
where the writer has used some good description.
2) Describe how the author has told the story--from what perspective?
--overall structure?
3) What MORE did you want as a reader? Where? Why?
4) If you could suggest ONE change, what would it be?
Author Response
Read all the peer responses you have received and respond as a whole to
these responses following these two questions.
1) What did your peer's confirm for you about your essay?
2) What new insights or perspective did you gain on your essay?
Note: Author
Responses ask for the author to read the peer responses and write a reflective
response. This Author Response activity could be done with any peer response
situation.
Peer Response Questions
Essay #2
1. Respond to one
comment made by the author in his or her Draft Letter.
2. RESTATE the writer's Illustrative "truth" (the "thesis").
Where is it placed? Is it clear?
3. WHO is the writer's audience and WHY is he or she sending this message
(the "thesis") to this particular audience?
4. POINT to where the essay was particularly clear, striking, or meaningful.
5. What MORE did you want (or need) as a reader?
Peer Response Questions:
Essay #3
1. Metaphor: Compare
the essay to an animal. What kind of animal is the author’s essay
like (and why—explain the comparison).
2. POINT to where the essay was particularly clear, striking, or meaningful.
3. Comment on the Introduction—how did the “lead” work
for you? Did the intro connect with you as a reader? Clear statement
of “thesis” (kernal sentence)?
4. What MORE did you want (or need) as a reader?
5. RESTATE the “emergent truth” that comes from the essay’s
comparison. Relate and respond to this “truth.”
Peer Response Questions
Essay #4
1. Offer one comment/response
to something the author says in his or her Draft Letter.
2. POINT to where the essay included good SPECIFIC examples and details
that helped you see and understand what the author was describing/defining.
3. RESTATE the KERNEL SENTENCE (as written or in a version you think
would be clearer).
4. The second half of the Kernel Sentence (... my experience tells me
____) is the “message” of the essay. Observe who the essay
seems to be sending this message to (audience) and why the author is
sending this message to them (purpose). Can you offer any suggestions
as far as defining or enhancing the essay’s sense of audience and
purpose? What is the occasion or situation for delivering this message
to the audience?
5. What MORE did you want (or need) as a reader? What MORE would help
the author achieve his or her specific purpose (desired affect) with
the intended audience?
Peer Response Questions
for Essay #5
1) Respond to one
item mentioned in their Draft Letter
2) Give your impressions of their Introduction.
3) POINT to the transition sentence that you think works best. (Does
it link to the thesis and present a sense of the full preference?
4) POINT to where they have used sources to define a term the best.
5) POINT to the ILLUSTRATIVE example that works best.
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