Project 2 Peer Review- In Class Activity

Read all the way through your partner's draft before answering any questions. Make sure you have a good understanding of what the writer is trying to accomplish as well as the overall structure of the essay. Once you've read the essay thoroughly, answer the following questions and post your responses as comments on your partner's blog.


1. The essay should thoroughly identify what Grant-Davie calls the "constituents" of the rhetorical situation: exigencies, rhetors, audiences, constraints. Review this section in your peer's draft, then tell them what's working and what could use improvement.

• How well does the writer explain these concepts? 
• Is there room for a quote from Carroll or Grant-Davie to help elucidate constituents?
• Are there additional exigencies, rhetors, audiences, or constraints they haven't considered?
• Is there an application of these concepts that needs to be extended, or illustrated more fully?

2. The essay should thoroughly discuss the argument the rhetor is attempting to make through the visual. 

• Does the writer discuss the argument clearly and thoroughly? 
• Is this argument clearly connected to the piece's exigency?
• Do you agree that this is the argument the visual is creating?

3. The essay should discuss how the visual arguments persuades the audience through appeals to our sense of logos, pathos, or ethos. 

• Does the writer show an understanding of these concepts (appeals to reason or intellect, appeals to emotion, appeals to audience's sense of the rhetor's credibility)?
• Are the concepts applied correctly to different elements in the visual argument?
• Do you get a good understanding of the way the Visual argument operates, that is- how it works to convince the audience?

4. A good essay should offer a critique of the visual's use of appeals within the specific rhetorical situation. So, for example, does the visual use an appeal which will be effective for the particular audience?

• Does the writer's critique of the visual argument line up with your own sense of it's effectiveness? 
• Look back again at the visual argument. How effective do you think it is? How could it be made more effective?

5. Think about the form or structure of the essay. 

• Are there paragraphs, passages, or sentences that seem disjointed or unconnected? 
• Are there sections that are separated that might work better together?
• Are there passages where a transition is needed to help the reader connect ideas?
• What about the beginning sentences? Does the writer effectively gain your interest and introduce the prupose of the essay?