Peer Editing
By Joe Schneider
PEER EDITING WORKSHEET
Your name:_____________________________________________________
The writer's name:________________________________________________
What is the paper's thesis? Is it easily recognizable?
Do you find that the paper contains enough textual evidence to support the claims it
makes?
Is the writer documenting her/his secondary sources correctly? (according to MLA style)
One a scale of 1-10, how smooth are the transitions between sentences? Cite one not-sosmooth transition from one sentence to another within the same paragraph.
On a scale of 1-10, how smooth are the transitions between paragraphs? Cite one not-sosmooth transition from one paragraph to another.
Cite one error in grammar or punctuation.
Do you see a better order for the paragraphs than the way they are now?
What do you like about this paper? What does the writer do well? (say why)
What is a general area of improvement on which the writer might want to focus both in
this paper and in future papers?