Name:  _______________  AM/PM

Leads--Writing Assignment due Thursday, October 4th

1.  Your lead must be typed, double-spaced, name and AM or PM typed in upper right-hand corner.
2.  Attach this paper with your comments for your own lead (self-grade).
3.  In class we will trade and peer-grade with a different color on this same paper.
4.  You will then turn in to Kangas/Milling for a grade.

____ Is it inviting? Is there voice? Is it lively? Will it engage a reader’s interest?

______ Is it clear? Does the reader immediately understand what specific issue or problem you’re going to explore the essay?

______ Is it true? Are all your statements factual, accurate, and generally the case, so the rest of your essay can be believable to a reader?

______ Is it focused? Does it point out the direction in which the rest of the essay is headed?

______ Is there an attitude? Does it sound like you, speaking with conviction about your opinion on the issue?

______ Is there a clearly implied audience? Do you have a target audience in mind? Who are you talking to and trying to persuade?

______ Is it long and developed enough? Is there enough meat here to establish what the problem is and where the essay is going?

______ Is it packed with information? Have you provided sufficient context, background, evidence, concrete examples, quotes statistics, information of some kind, to make the reader want to continue reading?

______ Is it honest and unexaggerated? Can the rest of your essay deliver on what the lead is promising?

______ Is the language clear and strong? Are the words you’ve chosen and the sentences you’ve structures straightforward, easy, and inviting? Are the verbs strong?

Peer Grader: ____________________________