Peer Review

Rhetorical Analysis

Clean draft 1: 25 minutes

• Choose a partner.• Trade speeches.• Read each other’s speeches and jot down a few notes

on the speaker’s purpose.• Read each other’s essays. * paragraphs that are

insightful and that give an excellent discussion of what the author did and why he/she did it.

• Discuss sections of the speech your partner may have failed to discuss or sections that your partner misunderstood.

• Discuss sections of the essay that were excellent.• Discuss sections of the essay that need more analysis or

a more thorough explanation.

Clean draft 2: 20 minutes

• Choose a partner.• Trade speeches.• Read each other’s speeches and jot down a few notes

on the speaker’s purpose.• Read each other’s essays. * paragraphs that are

insightful and that give an excellent discussion of what the author did and why he/she did it.

• Discuss sections of the speech your partner may have failed to discuss or sections that your partner misunderstood.

• Discuss sections of the essay that were excellent.• Discuss sections of the essay that need more analysis or

a more thorough explanation.

Clean draft 3: 15 minutes

• Look at the text you used in your essay. Did you lead into it?

• Ex. Dr. King discusses “the great beacon of light” as a metaphor for hope.

• Ex. His point is made obvious with a no nonsense declaration: “the American high school is obsolete and should be abolished” (153).

• No sentence should begin with a citation/ “ ”• Put periods and commas inside quotation marks.• Read from back to front. Check for run-on sentences.

Check for missing commas. After he says_____, he continues by claiming __________.