HOMEWORK

REVIEW
PEER REVIEW
ENG 089

CHOOSE A PREWRITING TECHNIQUE

After a long, hard day of work, you return homethe only
problem is, your front door is wide open, all your lights are
on and there's a sword stuck in the ceiling.The rest of your
house looks normal, but you also notice several holes dug
in your backyard. What's going on?

REVIEW HOMEWORK
Pg 360 practice 4, pg. 362 practice 7, Pg. 363
practice 10, Pg. 365 practice 13, Pg. 367 practice 16

ON THE BACK OF YOUR ROUGH

DRAFT
Name something that you know you did well.
Name something that you know you didnt do
well but you understand.
Name something that you dont understand.

LOOK AT YOUR ROUGH DRAFT

Is everything double spaced?
Times new roman size 12 font

CHECK YOUR HEADER

In right upper margin, do you have your last name
and page number?
Stanko 1

CHECK YOUR HEADING

Name
Instructor name
Class title
Date (day month year)

FIRST LINE AFTER HEADING

Title?
Centered?

PARAGRAPH
7-10 sentences?
Underline topic sentence
Underline concluding sentence
Do they align? What similar key words and
phrases are used in both sentences?

GRAMMAR VERB SHIFTS

Highlight all verbs
Check the verb tenses to ensure that none of the
verbs shift.

GRAMMAR MOOD/VOICE SHIFT

Before each verb, do you have a subject?

GRAMMAR POINT OF VIEW SHIFTS

Cross out all first person pronouns (I, me, my, we,
us)
Cross out all second person pronouns (you, your)

Paragraphs must be written in third

person!!!!

GRAMMAR STATEMENT/QUESTION
SHIFT
Ensure that there arent any shifts from a
statement to a question or vice versa

GRAMMAR - VERBS
Circle all Be Verbs
Be
Is, Are, Am
Was
Were
Been
Being
Rewrite sentences to omit these passive
verbs

PARTS OF SPEECH
Put a square around an example of each of the following in your
essay:
Noun
Adjective
Adverb

Article
Conjunction
Preposition

EXCHANGE ROUGH DRAFTS

Sign your name at the end of someone elses rough draft
Read their rough draft. Is MLA formatting followed?
Is there topic and concluding sentence alignment?
Proofread the essay for shifts and passivity
On the back, read their statements. Do you agree or
disagree? Why?
Name two concepts that are done well in the essay
(format, grammar, structure, contentbe specific).
Name one additional thing that hasnt been mentioned
that needs to be improved (think content).

FOR WEDNESDAY
Study for quiz #1 (shifts, verbs, parts of speech)
Due Monday Graded Writing Assignment #1
Submit in this order rubric, final copy, pre-write, plan
(outline), rough draft w/ peer review