Peer Review Questions for RIP Essay

1. Has the writer clearly spent time analyzing audience reception?

Yes, Juliette has spent a good portion of the essay analyzing the reception of her audience. She
identifies and elaborates upon the rhetorical situation that affected how well her audience
understood the ideas that she was trying to impart.
2. Does the writer clearly describe the medium and genre used for their project and discuss how
specific conventions expected of texts in that medium and genre were targeted?
Juliette clearly describes that the medium used for her project was an informational video, and the
genre used was zombie-apocalyptic horror. She identifies utilizing the rhetorical situation in order
to ensure that she successfully communicated with the audience and imparted new information.
3. Does the writer clearly describe what she wants the audience to know, feel, and think and how
those receptions were designed?
In particular:

How did it appeal to the audience? (UCI, college student, scholars) What specific
references do you make that only someone from UCI might understand? What specific
elements did you include that cater specifically to scholarspeople who are
academically interested in the content?

This video appealed to the audience on a scholarly level because of its comprehensive
information delivered in a brief period of time through the medium of an informational video.
The language used was formal and professional, as well as the images used as examples to
capture the audiences attention. Her group utilized auditory assistance to maintain the attention
of her audience with appropriate music that aligned with the sentiment of the grave subject
matter.
How did it meet their expectations? (audiences expect certain elements
(conventions/tropes) as part of a particular genre or medium) How did you arrange
visuals, for example, on a slide, to make sure they would appeal to your audience?
Since this was an informational video, the audience expected professional, scholarly delivery. The
video delivered exactly that through auditory and visual effects.
How did it grow out of the need to meet the conventions of your particular
genre/medium? What elements were necessary because of your genre and mediumfor
example, if its a song, its conventional to have a stanzas and a chorus, rhyming, rhythm,
etc.
The video grew out of the need to meet the conventions of the informational video medium by
delivering a comprehensive video within the span of a brief six minutes. Typically, informational

videos are longer in time in order to allow the audience to understand the full depth of the subject
matter, but Juliette group did well in including only the most important information and
excluding information that was not as relevant in order to fit into the time constraint.
How does it reflect your cultural situation? Or what element did your group intentionally
include so that it would reflect this situation and speak to it? (what element, if it were
seen/read/heard by someone from a completely different culturea different location,
different age, different culture and country entirelywould make no sense? If you can
identify elements that way, you know they grew out of your own cultural context).

4. Does the writer clearly describe what he/she intends as the primary message of the text? Has
the writer distinguished between purpose and message? Also, are the purpose/message of the text
related to an analytical point that was discussed in class?
Yes, her primary message was to impart the research regarding her subject matter in a
professional and scholarly manner. The message of the text related to an analytical point
discussed in class the role that conventions play in creating a set of expectations that
characterize the genre of zombie horror.
5. Has the writer addressed the group situation with some insight and engaging examples?
No, the writer has not yet addressed the group situation.