This week we are working asynchronously to share rough drafts for Project 1: Materialities of the Book.

Before midnight on Sunday, March 5 post your rough draft as a blog post, using the Materialities Drafts category. You can select an image at random from our media library as your featured image.

By midnight on Wednesday, March 8, return to our course site to read and review 3 drafts (see assignments below). If you’re familiar with Hypothesis, I encourage you to leave line-level comments/edits and help your peers think about places that need closer attention, such as sentence fragments, clarity issues, or word choice. In addition to this, please answer the following questions with as much detail as possible, citing examples from the paper where possible.

1. Argument:
   • Does this paper have a clear, argumentative thesis? Can you identify what kinds of textual evidence will be used to support it?
   • After you’ve read the whole paper, how does the paper sustain the thesis statement? In other words: does each paragraph support and expand the argument laid out in the thesis?
   • Which paragraph reads the strongest with regards to the central argument, and why?
   • Which paragraph needs more attention to argumentation and analysis? Provide specific suggestions.
2. Textual evidence:
   • Does the paper make appropriate use of direct quotes and paraphrasing from the novel to support its argument? Discuss one place where this is done well and one place where you think evidence needs to be added (or different examples need to be selected)
3. External sources:
   • Are the articles referenced in the paper appropriate for the argument? Explain.
   • Are the sources well integrated into the student’s own ideas, or do they seem disconnected from the argument of the paper? Give at least one example.
   • Are the sources sufficiently summarized so that outside readers can understand what the article is arguing? If not, offer suggestions for where more summary or synthesis needs to happen.
4. Feedback
   • Provide 2 specific suggestions for revision — these can be about organization, style, clarity, or argument.

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Peer Review Assignments:

• Sharwane: read the drafts from Diamond, Dan, and Kehinde
• Kehinde: read the drafts from Allison, Elvis, and Lisbel
• Dan: read the drafts from Sharwane, Lisbel, and Allison
• Diamond: read the drafts from Allison, Dan, and Sharwane
• Lisbel: read the drafts from Elvis, Sharwane, and Dan
• Allison: read the drafts from Kehinde, Diamond, and Elvis
• Elvis: read the drafts from Lisbel, Kehinde, and Diamond