1. Peer Edit

2. Write “Peer Edited By:_______”, at the top of your partner’s paper, filling in the blank with your name.

3. Find a sentence in the first paragraph that explains what type of human relationship the chosen character symbolizes. Circle it and write “Thesis.”
If your partner’s paper lacks a thesis, write “No thesis.”

4. Put a box around the word in the thesis that best names the human relationship type the character symbolizes.

5. Put a box around every separate instance of the word that names the type of relationship, or around words or phrases that serve as synonyms for that word.

6. Check the topic sentence of each body paragraph
Check the topic sentence of each body paragraph. Does it serve as a transition by referring both to what preceded this paragraph and what is to come? If so, write “TS serves as transition.”
If it does not, write your partner one TS that does.

7. Find a moment in each body paragraph that analyzes an event to show how it reveals the nature or progression of the chosen character’s relationship type. Mark it “Event Analysis” in the margin.

8. Find a moment in at least one body paragraph that analyzes the diction, tone, or imagery of a quote to show how it functions to reveal the nature or progression of the chosen character’s relationship type. Mark it “Close Analysis” in the margin.
If the paper lacks it, write “Needs Close Analysis” in the margin.

9. Locate the concluding sentence of each body paragraph
Locate the concluding sentence of each body paragraph. Does the concluding sentence relate the evidence and analysis of the paragraph to the thesis? If it does, write “CS links to thesis.”
If not, write “Needs CS to link to thesis.”

10. The conclusion should explain that the character symbolizes a type of human relationship, and refer to the other types of characters the story symbolizes as well. It should then interpret the entire story as an allegory, and hint at the darkness of this allegory. If it does, write “Conc. explains story as allegory.”
If it doesn’t, write, “What is the allegory?”

11. Read the entire essay, looking for anything that sounds confusing or awkward. If you can fix a problem you find, fix it. Otherwise, just mark it ‘Awk.’ for “awkward”. Mark run-on sentences ‘RO.’