lay back your way of understanding the writing:
Telling the writer what you got out of the story will allow them to see if their point is getting across or not. If you are not getting the right effect from the story they will be able to make changes to get the right point across.
Don't try to deal with everything all at once if it's a first. rough draft
Re-reading the paper at it's different stages can help the writer in different ways. The first draft should allow the reader to put in opinions on how to make the storyline move smoother and how to get the point across better. Later drafts can be used to get smaller details like spelling and punctuation.
ne thing to avoid: plastering comments all over the writing; in between and over the lines of the other person's writing-up, down, and across the page. Write in your space, and let the writer keep hers
Writing all over the writer's work can cause them to feel clustered, messy, and that their work is bad. Keeping your comments in the margins and at the end allow the reader to see that their ideas are still there and are important and that your ideas are just some side opinions, not what makes their story.
reconsider his intentions as a writer and the effects the words on the page will have on readers.
Good responding on the reader's part will help the writer to see how well their point is being made. Good revising will help the writer to improve on their storyline and the effect they want to leave the reader with.
Ask questions, especially real questions
These types of questions will allow the writer to make their writing more detailed and personal, like the work should be. These types of questions help the reader to give opinions to add to the story without being too assertive.
'{ou're a reader, a helper. a colleague. Try to sound like someone who's a reader, \vho's helpful. and who's collegial. Supportive.
Picking out all the errors and shooting down all their ideas isn't the readers job. The readers job is to address the writer and give opinions that you think could help get the point of the story across a little better. These opinions should be supportive and helpful not just shooting down everything they wrote.
you'll read the paper \\ 1th an eye to the circumstances that it was written in and the situation it is looking to create.
When reading the paper, you shouldn't think of how you would write the paper or from your views and opinion. Instead you should read the paper on how well they told their story and if it was following the topic/question they were given.
You're okay. I'm Pkay. Everybody's happy.
This is often times how peer reflections go because we are too afraid to hurt the writer's feelings, but I think the constructive criticism is the only way that the writer will really be able to improve their writing. Not getting detailed and specific about what can be improved will just keep their work the same.
In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting
The descriptive words, "slow", "painstaking, and "ragged" create a picture in the reader's head of how bad his handwriting and penmanship really was. This also shows the reader how much he improved by "seeing" how bad it was before and reading how well he wrote his autobiography.
The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands
The words that stand out are "monstrous" and "sin". These words allow the reader to feel the hurt and anger that he was feeling after reading about slavery. These devastating emotions show how much reading opened his eyes to the problems of the world. Without the ability to read he may not have learned about all the problems that he stood up for.
In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.
This sentence is ironic because he is in prison, so he is in fact not free, but his ability to read makes him feel the most free he has ever been. This shows the reader how much reading really meant to him because it set him free from his locked mind and that mattered way more to him then him being locked in prison.