After you have thoroughly read your partner's paper, use the following questions a guidelines for composing a critique letter to the writer about his/her working draft. Your critique letter should be written directly and personally to the writer (not to me) and should offer an informed, intelligent reader response to the working draft. Your aim in not to highlight weaknesses in the draft, but more importantly to explain its strengths and to offer concrete recommendations for how the writer can improve upon the draft, giving it greater clarity of ideas, depth and insight and readability of the prose.

We will meet in class with our critique partners to exchange the critique letters and discuss our working drafts.

PART I
1. What did you like best about this paper? Why?
2. What did you like least about this paper? Why?

PART II
1. What was new (to you) or original (for you) in this paper? Explain.
2. What did you learn from this paper?

PART III
1. a. What is the thesis of the paper you are reading?
b. Explain how the paper supports or defends this thesis?
c. How, if at all, could the thesis be modified to strengthen the paper?

2. a. What connections to LS 1/ID 201 concepts and sources does the writer make in the discussion in the working draft? Evaluate these connections.
b. How and how well do these LS 1 connections illuminate the specific issues of Human Identities? What other connections can you think of that might shed further light on the writer's thesis?

PART IV
1. Directly on the text, make any corrections in grammar, punctuation, or spelling.
2. What suggestions do you have for the writer in terms of the writing of this paper?