Peer Review #1: First Essay Draft

For this peer review, you are going to provide peer review to your two of your classmates on their . Always think about it this way: how would you like people to provide feedback to you? Be critical but still supportive.

You don’t submit anything here, this is so we can enter the points for your peer reviews. Sometimes Canvas seems like it isn’t wanting to let you comment on the papers within Canvas but you can download the paper and make comments on it so, if you do that, upload that paper with the comments using “attach file” and make a comment that just says “please see attachment.” OR you can make the comments directly in the comments box itself (i.e. write them out in there). Either option works. Nothing gets submitted here! To see how to find/access your peer reviews, please go to:

I want you to engage with your peers in a supportive and generative manner. Think about how you like to receive feedback!

You can make your comments directly on the draft itself (notice when you open it that it has controls at the top like a highlighter, comment bubble, etc.), comments in the comments box on the bottom right, or even write them out in something like a Word doc and attach that. If you do comments directly on the paper, please make a comment in the comments box noting this so that Canvas recognizes that youve done this (and removes the peer review from your to do).

Please do the following:

• Evaluate their introduction. Keep an eye out for an understanding of their topic, whether it has motivated the reader to read on, and gives a clear understanding of where theyre taking you. Is there a clear thesis? Do you understand what they are intended to write about?
• Also, please provide comments as to what their topic brought to mind for you. All projects develop and evolve in some ways, so by providing your insight into this, it can aid your peers in seeing potentialities they had not yet. Especially since there is ongoing development in the writing, this can help others for editing/expansion.
• Evaluate their literature review. How does it flow? Do the parts here continue the points from the thesis/introduction?
• Look at their references. While I don’t expect you to know the literature on their topic, are there certain angles or resources that you think they might benefit from? For example, maybe you saw something on Pew or in a newspaper while you were searching for things on your own topic. Maybe you have a reference that they’d benefit from.

Overall, be supportive. If you see something that needs development thats great and you should note that for them. Its also important to contextualize as this is a draft, so keep in mind that this is happening alongside them making a better/stronger paper so also give attention to what you think is done well, what you like, etc.