Project Two Peer Review Form

Aside from making comments and corrections on the essay, you should answer the following questions in thoughtful, helpful ways.

1.  Does the paper contain a clear definition of a specific term?  Is that term defined in an interesting way and/or a way that differs from the norm?

2.  Are there clear criteria given for the definition?  Does the author give specific, concrete examples to explain and support his/her definition?

3.  Is the paper addressed to a clear, specific audience?  Does the author have a specific purpose for writing to this audience?  Does the choice of audience complicate the author's argument (i.e. is the audience likely to disagree with the author's argument?)?  

4.  What is the strongest counterargument you can make to refute this paper's argument?  What specifically would you point out/argue in order to suggest that the author has his/her definition wrong, has neglected to consider certain aspects of the issue or has presumed too much in his/her definition argument?

5.  What is the strongest element of this paper?  Why?

6.  What is the weakest element of the paper?  Why?  How would you improve/strengthen that element?

7.  On a sentence-level, do you find the paper to be well written?  Does it contain poor grammar?  What about sentence fragments?  Run-on sentences?  Is it unnecessarily wordy at times?

8.  Does the author clearly explain his/her project's "so what" factor?  In other words, does the author make it clear why he/she thinks this is a term/concept worth being defined today?  Does it seem particularly relevant to the concerns/issues of our current world?  Why or why not?

9.  What grade would you give this project if this was the final draft?