This week was all about reviewing and finishing our white papers, so there was really no specific reading assignment. We were required though to read over some of the other group’s white papers, filling out a Peer Review sheet for each paper. This was a very good exercise for all of us to partake in. In breaking down other group’s white papers question by question from the Peer Review sheet it makes you think about your own paper. Each time we would be presented with a question to analyze from there paper, I would try to think about how we could answer this question for our own paper. This allowed us to catch both major and minor flaws in our paper that needed correction. The responses we got from other groups were somewhat beneficial. It is easier for groups when they are critiquing to focus on the overall look and design of the paper. It is hard to grasp the content and ideas if you don’t actually read the entire paper front to back. I think that many groups just focused more on the overall look of the paper, rather than the content, so that was the area where we had the most advice and critiquing. As my group read over some of the other group’s white papers we discovered the hardest part was organization; it may be that our logical organization of information in the paper makes sense to us, but maybe not another group. This is what we ran into while critiquing, because in some of the papers it was hard for us to infer what the solutions were that followed the problem and what the problem was that these solutions would be taking care of. In a few of the papers we tried to make some reorganization suggestions, but it was difficult because to them they already understand the flow. Overall, the peer reviews were a great benefit to our group. We not only got critiques from other groups, but it also presented us with a prime opportunity to critique our own paper.