Student’s Name: Reviewer’s Name:
Analysis Paragraph: Peer Evaluation
Prompt: Analyze the rhetorical choices Bradstreet makes in order to express her views on colonial life.
Evaluate the Following:
- Does the topic sentence answer the prompt?Yes No
- Does the paragraph identify at least two rhetorical strategies? YesNo
- Does the paragraph provide clear evidence to support
thestrategies and characterize colonial life?YesNo
- Does the writer analyze words or phrases from the examples?YesNo
- Is the paragraph lively, sharp, and original in its writing style?YesNo
Extended Response:
- What’s the strongest aspect of the paragraph?
- How can the student specifically improve the paragraph?
Student’s Name: Reviewer’s Name:
Analysis Paragraph: Peer Evaluation
Evaluate the Following:
- Does the topic sentence answer the prompt?Yes No
- Does the paragraph identify at least two rhetorical strategies? YesNo
- Does the paragraph provide clear evidence to support
thestrategies and characterize colonial life?YesNo
- Does the writer analyze words or phrases from the examples?YesNo
- Is the paragraph lively, sharp, and original in its writing style?YesNo
Extended Response:
- What’s the strongest aspect of the paragraph?
- How can the student specifically improve the paragraph?
Sample analysis body paragraph—
Prompt: Analyze the rhetorical choices Chavez makes to develop his argument about nonviolent resistance.
Throughout the passage, Chavez implements the plural pronoun “we.” His repetition of “we are convinced” in hisarticle is appealing in that it is very inclusive. It does not alienate his reader. He contrasts the “we” with “those who will see violence as the shortcut to change” (paragraph 7). He portrays the “we” as a righteous sympathetic people, ones who “know that [struggle] cannot be more important than one human life” (paragraph 6), and who “are not blind to frustration, impatience, and anger” (paragraph 7). By contrasting a compassionate nonviolent people, who are able to comprehend the importance of even one life, to the heartless people advocating for violence, his use of plural pronouns is in fact an emotional appeal that prompts the audience towards his side of the argument.
Sample analysis body paragraph—
Prompt: Analyze the rhetorical choices Chavez makes to develop his argument about nonviolent resistance.
Throughout the passage, Chavez implements the plural pronoun “we.” His repetition of “we are convinced” in his article is appealing in that it is very inclusive. It does not alienate his reader. He contrasts the “we” with “those who will see violence as the shortcut to change” (paragraph 7). He portrays the “we” as a righteous sympathetic people, ones who “know that [struggle] cannot be more important than one human life” (paragraph 6), and who “are not blind to frustration, impatience, and anger” (paragraph 7). By contrasting a compassionate nonviolent people, who are able to comprehend the importance of even one life, to the heartless people advocating for violence, his use of plural pronouns is in fact an emotional appeal that prompts the audience towards his side of the argument.