Revise and Edit your First Draft
The revising and editing stage will be evaluated by the person whose project you help revise. It is important that you do a good job during this assignment. You may help revise more than one person’s speech (limit 2 speeches in addition to the one you are assigned) for extra credit.
Name: Period:
Who was your editor?
Writer Grade:
| Writer has completed a draft. | yes |
| Draft has a clear introduction. | yes |
| Draft has a clear conclusion. | yes |
| Writer addresses all required topics. | yes |
Editor Grade:
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My editor pointed out places where I need to elaborate and wrote questions in the margin to help me figure out the kinds of information that will help me do a good job. |
3 |
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My editor pointed out places where I need to elaborate, but did not ask me any questions to help me figure out how to go about it. |
2 |
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My editor said it was good and moved on. |
1 |
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My editor pointed out places where my reasons and details don’t make sense and explained what I needed to do to make them stronger. |
3 |
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My editor pointed out places where my reasons and details don’t make sense. |
2 |
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My editor said it was good and moved on. |
1 |
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I know that my editor read my project carefully because s/he gave me at least 5 specific ideas that I could use to make it better. |
3 |
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I know that my editor read my project but I think s/he may have hurried a little or at least didn’t give it a lot of thought because s/he only gave me two or three ideas that I could use to make it better. |
2 |
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I wonder if my editor read my work at all because s/he gave me fewer than two ideas and those weren’t very useful. S/He must have really hurried through it. |
1 |
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Total /9 |
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