Intro Qs
Can you clearly identify the author’s writing study question? Do they define their ideas? How? How might they improve their definition or explanation?
Lit Review Qs
Do they fully explain what their sources are saying? Could you explain the concepts/ideas in depth to someone else based of the lit review you read? How might they improve their explanation of their sources? Can you identify how these sources are/will be used? Are they using their sources to define their ideas? Create a framework for their ideas? To refute? Are there any sources that don’t seem to add anything to your peers ideas? Which are they? Why do you feel like they aren’t working in the lit review?
Connection Qs
How are their sources ideas coming together here to help the author talk about his idea? Are there any sources that seem to fall flat or don’t aid in developing the author’s ideas? Which are they? Why?
Methodology Qs
Does the author explain in detail what his expeirement/survey/interview is all about? D o you know what kinds of questions they are asking? Who it is for? Do they talk about why they choose the specific research tool and what they expect it will do? Do they talk about choices they made to NOT include certain information? Could you repeat the same survey/expeirement/etc? Why or why not?
DATA Qs
How does the writer organize her data? Does the organization help you understand the information they collected? does it make it difficult to understand? What other ways might they organize their data to make it easier for you, the reader, to understand it. Does she fully explain the information she obtained? Or does it leave you asking more questions? What kinds of questions are you left with? Based on the info the writer provides the reader with do you understand the purpose of their research tool(survey, expirement, interview) and what it was looking to find? Could the data benefit from a visual representation, a chart diagram or graph? OR some other visual? How would it benefit the writer exactly?
DATA ANALYSIS Qs
Does the writer look for patterns in his or her data and attempt to explain these patterns? Are there other explanations for the patterns in Data that the writer did not make or acknowledge? Does the writer explain his or her data with regard to his or herlarger idea and question? Does explain what he thinks his data means? Is all the data they talked about in their previous section(DATA) explained and explored in their analysis? What did they miss or forget to explain? How might that affect the way a reader understands the information they collected? Could they possibly bring in thier sources here to help them explain what they think their data means?
CONVO/CONCLUSION Qs
Does the writer revisit his or her hypothesis? Has it changed? How might that affect her message? Does she acknowledge the change, or the similarities between her hypothesis and her final findings? Does the writer summarize her findings? Does she explain or reflect on the what her findings have taught her? Does she acknowledge gaps or missed opportunities in her research and writing? What are the gaps or missed opportunities you, as a reader, came across? Does she bring in her sources again to help her explain or explore her conclusions? Where could sh bring her sources back in to help her explain or explore her findings? Does she make projections or claims about WHO or WHAT is affected by her findings? Does she move you to care about what she has found? How can she do that? What would move you to care about her findings? Why are they important? Why aren’t they?
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