Peer Review on a Paper on U.S.Inequality

Now that you have submitted your initial draft of your paper comparing inequality in another country to U.S. inequality, the next phase of the assignment is peer review. In the First Draft assignment at Canvas, you will find the words "Assigned Peer Reviews," with two links, which are probably both called "Anonymous User." These are the drafts written by two of your classmates that have been randomly assigned to you. When you click on one of them, you will link to the file that classmate turned in. Please try to open each of the two files as soon as possible. If you can't open or otherwise read one or both of them, contact me immediately.

As part of your assessment, you will give each draft a score between 0 and 5 (including all decimal numbers), with 0 the lowest possible score and 5 the highest. To help you score a paper, you can use the rubric that is in the writing assignment document at Sakai Resources, though you do not need to provide a score for every category listed in the rubric, just one overall score. Your scores will not affect your classmates' grades on their assignment--think of it as a way of telling them how much extra work they need to do on their final draft. You should also (more importantly) provide written comments. Specific, constructive advice about how to improve the paper is the best kind of comment. There will surely be at least five or six things to say about any paper. Also, even though your review is anonymous, don't say anything you wouldn't say to a person directly--the purpose of peer review is to help each other write better papers. Although your scores will not affect your classmates' grades, you are being graded on your comments. This is mostly a check that you are taking your responsibilities as a reviewer seriously; if it's not obvious from your comments that you read the paper, that could lead to deductions.