Stacy Clovis
English Department

Please respond to the following questions while I read your essay.
 

1.  How would you describe your process in working on this essay?  Where did you get your idea for the content you chose to focus on in the essay?

2.  How did you go about developing it?  Did the development come easily to you, or with some difficulty?

3.  After revising from your first draft, would you add to your comments on the initial strengths of your essay (from your "Writer Response" workshop sheet)?  If so, what would these additions be?

4.  Are there particular areas of the essay that you're more pleased with than others?  If so, what are these areas?

5.  Do you think that you've tried to strengthen the areas that you felt needed improvement?  How did you go about doing this?

6.  Based on the workshop you did with your classmates did you find their comments and suggestions to be helpful to you in revising your essay?  Why or why not?

7.  Did you use your "Reader Response" workshop sheet when you went to revise your essay?

8.  Did you get a sense of the audience you are trying to reach (by actually verbalizing your written words) in your essay?

9.  What can I do to most help you in revising your essay for the final draft?