English Composition › Section G · The evaluation or review › Topic G.4

Evaluating effect on the audience

A review succeeds only if it works on its readers: they follow it, trust it and can act on it. A rubric turns that effect into criteria you can check in your own draft or a classmate's.

In this topic

  • The final test is the reader
  • Conventions, and choosing to break them
  • How the rubric is built
  • Critical language awareness
  • Clarity and coherence
  • Rhetorical choices: engaging readers
  • Knowing your readers
  • Worked example: scoring a weak paragraph
  • Worked example: revising for the audience
  • Using rubric feedback
  • Common mistakes to avoid
  • Key takeaways

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