PAT 514: Contemporary Software Techniques in Performing Arts Technology (Winter 2025)
Due at 11:59pm ET on February 17
Instructions
You will write an anonymous review for each of your colleague’s writing sample. For this assignment, please focus on the writing rather than the technical content. Please use the following template:
Summary: Provide a single-paragraph summary of the paper in your own words
Strengths: List 2-3 strengths of the paper on writing
Weaknesses: List 2-3 weaknesses of the paper on writing
Detailed Comments and Suggestions: Provide a list of (at least ten) detailed comments and suggestions on writing
Please submit your reviews as TXT files to Gradescope.
Tips
You may use the seven structural principles suggested by George Gopen to guide your review.
Follow a grammatical subject as soon as possible with its verb.
Place in the stress position the “new information” you want the reader to emphasize.
Place the person or thing whose “story” a sentence is telling at the beginning of the sentence, in the topic position.
Place appropriate “old information” (material already stated in the discourse) in the topic position for linkage backward and contextualization forward.
Articulate the action of every clause or sentence in its verb.
In general, provide context for your reader before asking that reader to consider anything new.
In general, try to ensure that the relative emphases of the substance coincide with the relative expectations for emphasis raised by the structure.