UPM-CALC/LPE 2501/SEM 1/2019-20/WP/TASK 3

PEER EDITING FORM

WRITING PORTFOLIO TASK 3

Ask a peer to review your paragraphs in WRITING FORM (DRAFT). Tick the
relevant boxes and provide comments to help improve the paragraphs.

Name of your peer: Merendharsny Dharmadass Date: 15/07/2020

TOPIC SENTENCES YES NO

 Use keywords or phrases from the thesis statement to indicate

the part of the thesis statement that will be discussed.
 Write the key words or phrases.
Acts to control member behaviour in several ways and motivate people
to live better are the functions of communication.
 Have clear topics and controlling ideas.
 Circle the topics and underline the controlling ideas in the
topic sentences.

 Contain appropriate transition signals such as first and second.

 Write the transition signals used.
Firstly and secondly

SUPPORTING SENTENCES YES NO

 Contain relevant points to support the main idea in the topic

sentence.

 Develop, clarify and support the topic sentence adequately.

SUPPORTING DETAILS (Paraphrase/Summary) YES NO

 Explain and support the supporting sentences.

 Write the types of supporting details used (fact, example,
quotation, or statistic).
Paragraph 1: example
Paragraph 2: example

 Retain relevant ideas and meaning from the excerpts.

 Use own words/phrases and did not copy from the excerpts.

CONCLUDING SENTENCES YES NO

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 Begin with a suitable concluding signal.

 Write the concluding signals used.
Therefore

 Restate the topic sentence or summarise the main ideas in the

paragraph.

 Do not consist of new points in the sentence.

CITATIONS & REFERENCES (APA Style) YES NO

 In-text citations contain the name of author in correct format.

 In-text citations contain the year of publication.

 In-text citations use appropriate reporting verbs (for within the

sentence citation only).
 List the reporting verbs used.
State ,explain, tell, clarify

 In-text citations use correct punctuation.

 Reference list matches the in-text citations and is correctly

formatted.

UNITY & COHERENCE YES NO

 All the supporting sentences/ supporting details are relevant to

the main idea.

 Paragraphs achieve coherence by repeating key nouns, using

noun substitutes, consistent pronouns and appropriate
transition signals. Write the:
Repeated key noun(s):
___________________________________
Noun substitute(s) :
___________________________________
Transition signals :
___________________________________

___________________________________

 Paragraphs flow smoothly from beginning to the end.

LANGUAGE AND SENTENCE ERRORS YES NO

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 Correct punctuation, capitalisation and spelling.

 Circle/underline errors in the draft, if any.

 Use a variety of sentence types (simple, compound, and

complex sentences).
 Underline/highlight a few examples of the types of sentences
in the draft.

 No language and sentence errors (non-parallel structures, run-

ons, fragments, comma splices, subject-verb agreement, and
tenses)
 Circle/underline errors in the draft, if any.

COMMENTS
THREE most important amendments the writer should make are:

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