Fourth Rough Draft Workshop Thunderdome!!!!

The Workshop

Back to the lab again. Surely you know the drill by now?

Answer the following questions in response to your peer's projects (as always, you should also provide any other recommendations or criticisms that occur to you).

1. Is the project clearly directed toward performing an evaluation or forwarding a proposal? I.e., is it clear that the fundamental objective of the paper is based around an evaluation or proposal?

2. How strong are the criteria that the writer is using to compose their evaluation or proposal? Are the criteria used in evaluations appropriate (if an evaluation)? Do they provide appropriate means for examining the strength of their proposal and determining the positive negative consequences of the proposal's acceptance (if a proposal)?

3. What is the strongest counterargument you can think of to refute the argument of this paper?

4. What do you take to be the strongest element of this project?

5. What do you find to be the weakest part (most in need of improvement) of the project?

6. On the sentence-level, did you find the paper to be well written? Does it contain poor grammmar or sentence-fragments? Is it unnecessarily wordy at times?

7. Does the author provide clear exigence for the project? I.e., do they make it clear why they think the topic they have taken up (butter, supermodels, the status of Detroit) is a timely one or one in need of consideration?

8. What grade would you assign this project if this were the final draft?