Peer Edit Sheet for First Draft of Literary Analysis Paper

Instructions: At the top of your paper, write Editor 1: _____, Editor 2: _____, Editor 3: _____.

I will pick up the papers and distribute them throughout the room. Be sure that you have already put your MLA heading and the header on each page before I pick it up. When you get a paper, see which editor you will be and write your initials in the appropriate blank. When you finish editing, give the paper to me so I can redistribute it.

Note: Everyone should have a check mark in the top corner of their paper. This mark indicates that I have recorded your workshop grade. If you had one and a half pages, the minimum length required for this workshop, you will receive a grade of 100.

Editor 1: Incorporation of Quotations: Use the handout on incorporation of quotations and assess how well the writer incorporates her quotations. If a quotation isn't incorporated, write "dumped quote" in the margin. If the writer uses only the most basic form of incorporation of quotes (Dante writes, "---" write in the margin "Vary the type of incorporation of quotes." If a writer improperly incorporates a quote, write "improper incorporation of quote" in the margin. As you assess the incorporation of quotes, also note any problems with the punctuation of MLA citation. All quotes should be cited with page numbers for prose and line numbers for poetry.

Editor 2: Support: Note: all body paragraphs should have at least three quotations. If the paper you're editing doesn't, then write at the top of the first page "Need __ more quotations in your body paragraph." Read the paper through one time. Then go back over it and see if you can suggest other quotations or means of support for the body paragraph(s). Remember, thorough, detailed analysis should follow the quotations, not merely a restatement of the surface level meaning of the quotation or a general commentary about it. Write your ideas in the margins. Take your time and try to come up with at least three suggestions for the writer to use in terms of deepening or making more precise her analysis of the quotations. Call me to you so that I can help you assess whether the writer is truly doing analysis of the quotation.

Editor 3: Line Edit: Read through the paper doing a general line edit, i.e. marking it for MLA format, line breaks (vergules) in poetry, proper spacing, proper incorporation of quotations, grammar, usage, etc. Write your suggestions in the margins.

If you didn't have your draft today: Remember this is a graded assignment. You are now responsible for getting an edited draft to me as soon as possible. Your Writing Workshop grade will be penalized for not having your draft on time today; you weren't able to participate in the writing workshop. For every additional day it's late, you will receive a ten per cent grade reduction. Produce a draft, get anyone to edit it according to the editing guidelines above and show it to me so that I can mark your grade as complete. Just put the edited draft on my desk with a note on it letting me know when you turned it in and anything else you need to tell me and I will enter the grade on that day. You must have turned in this draft before you turn in your second draft for workshop because the second draft needs to be truly a second, revised draft.