To gain the benefits of peer response, someone might ask YOU to comment on a text he or she has composed.

To comment effectively, you will need to know:

1. the target audience (for that particular instance of writing), and
2. the desired consequence (for that particular instance of writing)

Answering Peer Response Questions

When a writer provides peer response questions (for a particular instance of writing), be sure to answer the questions:

• directly—the ones writer asked
• in a manner which supports the writer (intellectually and emotionally), and
• with suggestions that will improve and/or expand the text (provided by the writer)

Go the "Extra Mile"

Writers engage in peer response in order to overcome the Perception Challenge or the Execution Challenge,

• but the writer's peer response questions are subject to the same challenges.

Therefore, just answering the questions (posed by the writer) is often not enough to help the writer overcome those challenges,

• so add a few more suggestions (that are not answers to the writer's peer response questions) to help the writer achieve the desired consequence (for that particular instance of writing)