The purpose of this assignment is three-fold:
First, completing a peer review will help develop your reading skills (discerning a writer's main point, locating key points of support or relevant data, etc.).
Second, receiving feedback on your own writing will help you revise and edit your final paper. The peer reviews you receive will help you determine which parts of your paper are effective as is, and which are unclear, incomplete, or unconvincing to the reader.
Finally, participating in peer review can help you learn to shape your written language so that the significance of your message is clear to readers who may not be experts in your subject. Writing for a diverse audience is an important skill both in the academic and the professional world.
For this assignment you will submit a draft of your final paper and you will read and complete peer reviews on 2 draft papers. Your role as peer-reviewer is that a reader, not an evaluator of the papers. For this reason, the tasks you will be asked to complete for this assignment emphasize your understanding and impressions of each paper. They do not require you to evaluate or judge the paper.
For each paper, you will need to:
Complete the attached rubric
Add a comment in which you:
State (in 1 or 2 sentences) what you found most compelling about the paper, and
Write 1 question you have about the topic after reading the paper.
Please review the following instructions on Submitting a Peer Review for an Assignment.