Questions for Final Peer-Review of Project #2

To help you make the best use of peer-review time, I have created a list of questions for groups to consider and discuss, rather than a worksheet. I recommend talking through these questions with each writer in the group.

1. What type of feedback would be most helpful to you today?

• For example, would the writer like a specific part of the project, like a finished white paper, reviewed?
• Or would s/he prefer to have the whole thing read over for stylistic issues and grammar?

2. Are there stylistic or grammar issues you'd like us to look for? For example:

• wordy writing?
• sentence length?
• repeated words?
• comma splices?
• apostrophe problems?

3. Do the writer’s proposal and progress report follow the formatting criteria:

• Sans-serif font for headings?
• Serif font other than Times New Roman for paragraphs?

4. What is the thesis (or purpose) of the white paper? If you can’t tell, the writer should clarify it.

5. What is the organizational pattern used in the white paper? Is it logical?

6. Do you see any potential problems with the writer’s use of sources? For example, are there any statistics that need a citation, passages that sound plagiarized, etc.?

7. Can the writer identify the citation format s/he is using (APA, MLA, CBE, etc.)?