Critiquing the Final Projects
Trade project drafts with someone. Take a general look at the design and organization of the document. Then spend some time reading all or portions of the document (depending on its length). Read enough material to get a good sense of the writing style and the document’s audience. You are trying to determine how effectively the document has been written. Naturally, you might not be able to understand all aspects of the document depending on its intended audience, but just do the best you can. Once you finish reviewing the document, answer the questions below. (You should be able to answer most of the questions, but if a question doesn’t apply or can’t be answered based on the current status of the draft, just skip that question.)
Send your critique in email form to the author of the project. Be sure to copy Dr. Pagnucci on your email so you will earn points for doing the critique.
If there is time after people finish the first critique, we will do a second critique.
Critique Email Format
To: project author’s email
CC: pagnucci@iup.edu
Subject: 322 Project Critique 1 (or 2)
- List the author of the project
- List the title of the project
- Is the purpose of the Technical Writing Project clearly stated in the introductory material?
- Explain how the purpose of the project might be further clarified.
- Is it clear who the intended audience for the project is?
- If there are multiple audiences for the project, has the writer helped each audience to determine which parts of the document are relevant?
- Could the project’s audience be clarified in any way?
- Using a scale of 1-10, where 10 is the best, rate the overall design of the project. Briefly explain your rating.
- Suggest one or two ways that the project’s design could be improved.
- Using a scale of 1-10, where 10 is the best, rate the overall organization of the project. Briefly explain your rating.
- Suggest one or two ways that the project’s organization could be improved.
- Using a scale of 1-10, where 10 is the best, rate the quality of the writing in the project. Briefly explain your rating.
- Suggest one or two ways that the project’s writing could be improved.
- What is the weakest feature/element of the project?
- What are the two strongest features/elements of the project?