THREE PART EDIT SHEET

ENG102                                                                                              Professor Mead

College Writing II                                                                                 Fall 2004

Edit Sheet #1 for Research Papers #2

Author __________________________         Editor ________________________

Directions:  Read through your partner’s paper.  Using the “Provocative Test” sheet, choose a number that most closely aligns with your sense of the paper’s thesis.  Write a ten-sentence paragraph that reflects your judgment of the provocative nature of the thesis.  Use at least two specific examples from your partner’s paper.

Using the “Interpretive Test,” choose a number that most closely describes your sense of the thesis’ interpretive nature.  Write a ten-sentence paragraph, using at least two examples from the paper.

Underline the first sentence of each body paragraph.  Write them down below and put a check by those that follow 1SR (First Sentence Rule:  the first sentence of each body paragraph must explicitly connect the paragraph’s topic with the paper’s thesis).

Provocative Test

1)                  Thesis is greatly surprising, possibly upsetting.  I can easily think of 2 or 3 counterarguments that would offer it formidable challenges.

2)                  Thesis is unexpected, intriguing.  I can think of 1 or 2 counterarguments that would need to be explored in order for thesis to be persuasive

3)                  Neutral.  Thesis may or may not be proven.  The interest will be in the argumentation rather than the argument.

4)                  Thesis is expected, familiar, or apparent.  It would be hard for me to imagine a sound or attractive counterargument.

5)                  Thesis is descriptive, obvious, or unclear.

Interpretive Test

1)                  After reading this paper, I feel as if I have completely missed a rich layer of meaning in the novel.

2)                  After reading this paper, I feel that my interpretation of the novel has been substantially enriched.   Meanings that I sensed were there are now very much clearer.

3)                  Author uses novel for purposes of illustration, relying on conventional interpretations to support the thesis.

4)                  Occasional allusions to the novel’s artistic meaning are “safe” or obvious.

5)                  Thesis does not offer the reader any interpretive sense of the novel.

College Writing II                                                                                 Professor Mead

ENG102                                                                                              Spring 2004

                                                Edit Sheet #2 for Research Paper #2

                                                                        Close Reading

Editor ________________________    Author ___________________________

Directions:  Choose four quotations from your partner’s paper and do your own close reading of them.  Be sure to identify what aspects of the language you are addressing.

Quotation 1  tone          diction  syntax   imagery            tone      repetition          sound effects   

Quotations 2     tone      diction  syntax   imagery            tone      repetition          sound effects   

Quotation #3     tone     diction  syntax   imagery            tone      repetition          sound effects   

Quotations #4   tone     diction  syntax   imagery            tone      repetition          sound effects   

Mechanical Edit                                                                        ENG102

College Writing II                                                                     Mead

Research Paper #2

Author _______________________________

____ Works Cited Page Corrected

____ Notes Page Corrected

____ Quotations Format Corrected

____ Parenthetical Citations Corrected

____ 1SR Checked; Errors Noted

____ To Be Verbs Circled

____ All Spellings Checked & Corrected

____ All Commas Checked for Correctness

____ Semicolons Checked

____ Terminal Punctuation Checked

____ Ambiguous Pronoun References Checked

____ Grade At This Draft

Editor __________________________________________ Date ______________