Exchange drafts with your assigned partner. Read over your partner’s draft, and respond to the following questions from Wysocki and Lynch’s chapter:

Statement of Purpose

1. Does the author have a clear statement of purpose?
2. Does the statement clearly show the project’s purpose, audience, and context?
3. Does the statement show how the project’s purpose is tied to the audience and context of communication?
4. Is the author’s purpose reflecting a goal related to something beyond themselves or their immediate group of peers? In other words, is their purpose connected to a larger “extended meaning”?
5. Does the explanation make clear what outcome the author is hoping for?
6. Does the author address how things might go wrong?
7. Does the statement describe the author’s responsibilities to their audience, to their unintended audiences, or to their community/ies?
8. What might the author add to their statement to create a full paragraph of explanation? What is missing? As a reader, what more do you want to know?

Design Plan

1. Does the author describe their overall strategies with justifications based in their statement of purpose?
2. Does the author describe their choice of medium/mode with justifications based in their statement of purpose?
3. How effective is the author’s chosen medium/mode given what you know about their purpose and audience(s)? Is there a different mode that might work better?
4. Does the author explain the arrangement or organization of their project with justifications based in their statement of purpose?
5. In their explanation of arrangement, what is the author missing?
6. Does the author clearly explain how they will produce the project?
7. After reading the design plan, what potential problems do you think the author might run into? How might they avoid those logistical hang-ups?
8. Does the author offer a potential plan for testing the efficacy of their project?
9. What suggestions do you have for the author? What additional details might they add to their design plan to clarify their project?
10. What questions do you have for the author that might help them think about the project differently or fill in the gaps you notice int heir plan?