EOC Practice: Sample Essay Critiques

Use these sentence frames to critique the ACT sample essay with your group. Make sure you
mark up the essay so you can reference specific sections during your critique.

Key Ideas and Details

Glows Grows
The writer made a good point about Could the writer address a counterclaim like
__________. __________ to strengthen the argument?
The writer helped me understand I think the writer should add more
__________. information about __________.
The writer did a very good job explaining The essay would be clearer if __________.
__________.

Evidence
Glows Grows
I like how the writer used evidence about I think the writer should add evidence about
__________. __________.
The writer does a good job being specific The writer should explain how __________
about __________. and __________ are similar/different.
The example of __________ is very It was hard to follow the idea about
convincing. __________. The writer could __________.

Mechanical Conventions
Glows Grows
The writer uses __________ very The writer needs to edit for __________.
professionally. (capitalization, punctuation, grammar,
spelling)
The writer’s organization is strong because The organization should be revised so that
__________. __________.

These frames are adapted from the following source:

Educational Testing Service (ETS). (2015). Peer-review sentence starters. Retrieved from

https://criterion.ets.org/Content/Peer%20Review%20Guideline.pdf