Visual Reflection Essay Feedback Form

1. Strengths of Your Submission:

Organization:
☐ Logical organization of ideas within each paragraph
☐ Clear focus and purpose in each paragraph
☐ Correct MLA format in essay
☐ Correct MLA citation of sources and images in the PSA “Works Cited”

Ideas, Observations, and Development:

☐ Detailed description of (1) context; (2) content; and (3) meaning of PSA
☐ Detailed analysis of (1) context; (2) content; and (3) meaning of PSA
☐ Adequate development with observations, examples, details, reasons, and explanations
☐ Smooth integration of evidence
☐ Perceptive thinking about PSA and its implications

Writing Style:
☐ Skillful academic style with consistent POV, active voice verbs, consistent verb tense, varied sentences, and
clear, direct language
☐ Precise, sometimes vivid word choice
☐ Smooth transitions produce a fluent or flowing movement from one sentence of paragraph to the next.
☐ Well-edited document

2. Specific Recommendations for Improvement:

Documentation and Format: ☐ Avoid overusing “This.” Put a noun after “this” if you
☐Review MLA format. choose to use it.
☐ Where’s your title? ☐ Avoid POV shifts: e.g., from “I” to “you”!
☐ Cite sources properly. ☐ More vivid details or specific language needed.
☐ Elevate your vocabulary/diction to show a more
Organization: sophisticated academic writing style.
☐ Improve paragraphing. ☐ Vary sentence beginnings.
☐ Better organization needed. ☐ Remove expletives like “There is/are” and “It is/was.”
☐ Introduce and integrate quoted examples correctly.
☐ Add smooth transitions. Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage:
☐ Use fewer pronouns and more nouns.
Development: ☐ Avoid indefinite pronouns like “everyone,” “something,”
☐ Support main ideas and observations with evidence. and “anybody.”
☐ Add more examples, details, or reasons to develop your ☐ Review punctuation rules, particularly those applying to
point or purpose. commas, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.
☐ Explain how or why examples support your main idea. ☐ Review rules applying to capitalization, numbers,
abbreviations, and/or spelling.
Writing Style: ☐ Avoid run-ons (fused sentences and comma splices)
☐ Edit writing more carefully to avoid careless mistakes. and fragments.
☐ Omit unnecessary, empty, confusing, and/or general ☐ Choose active voice over passive voice.
phrasing. ☐ Avoid verb tense shifts, please.
☐ Replace clichés with more literal language.

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