peer review letter

Write letters (at least 350 words each) to TWO of your workshop group members critiquing their essay drafts and offering suggestions. To see an annotated example of a great peer review letter, 

In your letters address at least four of the following:

• Summarize or identify the thesis.  Does it meet the criteria for a good thesis (focus, assertion, complexity, tension).  Offer suggestions or ask questions that might help the writer improve the thesis.
• Ask four questions about specific words, sentences, or points the writer has made and that will require the writer to clarify, elaborate, or give examples.
• Identify where the writer uses sources. Are both primary and secondary sources used? Identify the purpose you think the writer is using each source. Offer any advice about better integrating the sources with the writer’s ideas/sentences. Offer ideas about other sources they might use.
• Describe the structure of the essay. Were there places where you became confused? Explain where these were and why they were confusing.
• Are all the questions posed in the assignment (see Looking in the Popular Culture Mirror Blog Post in Course Content) answered by the essay? If not, which ones still need addressing?
• Describe the overall tone of the essay. Is it consistent? For what type of audience does the tone, language, and reasoning of the writer's essay seem appropriate? Where might you envision the writer's essay being published (i.e. a textbook, a personal blog, a popular magazine, etc.).
• Identify and explain any potential fallacies in logic or loaded language.
• Does the writer address possible counterarguments or alternative viewpoints? If not, offer a counterargument or alternative reading of the evidence the writer presents, or point out where the writer's arguments/evidence might be unconvincing or oversimplified.
• What is missing? Or what did you want more of?
• Where is information unnecessarily repeated or awkwardly stated?
• If you noticed any grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors, what were they?
• What are the main strengths of the draft?