1. What is the thesis of this paper? Does it meet the requirements of the assignment?
What are the key words?
2. How much evidence from primary sources does the writer use to support the thesis?
Number of quotes, paraphrases, summaries?
3. Did the writing stop you because you were puzzled by grammar, punctuation or
meaning? If so, where?
4. Was MLA formatting correct? If not, what is missing, incorrect, etc?
5 What was the best part of the paper? Give the writer a good compliment.
6. If this were your essay, what would you do differently?