Peer review, especially with a full rough draft, allows for a reader to take a full and in depth look at an authors take on a specific project or work. With a full rough draft, I can make detailed and insightful observations impossible with only an outline.
What follows is a content outline for Joshua Smith's Standard College Essay titled
Amazing Ideas That Could Make Fracking Greener and Safer.
What follows are a few questions that would help an author exam a peer review, especially focused on the content of the project, which cover the detail of the sources, ideas, and goals of the project.
- How successfully the “Rough Cut” meets the criteria described in the Project 2 Assignment Sheet
- I believe Joshua project definitely met the criteria laid out in the project assignment sheet. The project effectively chose a public argument, the current argument about fracking in the oil industry. The paper also chose to exam potential solutions to the problem, which is one of the main ways to approach an argument as we went over in class. Also, the project has a decent length to it, examining various examples and topics through the industry, and also includes a work cited and includes many sources to prove the topic was well researched.
- The level of detail and development present in the “Rough Cut”
- Joshua's project does receive a little bit of critique from me in this regard. While his essay is of an adequate length and does pull from multiple topics, the essay does miss out from including a strong anti-counter argument section, dedicated to defending the proposed idea from theoretical retorts that a reader may have. The essay also fails to analyze some of the sources quoted in the essay effectively. Some essays, especially the first four, suffer from a lack of detailed analysis for the quotes or sources mentioned. Ideally, a source should have about three sentences of support or analysis to give it real meaning to the goal of the essay.
- the effectiveness of the use and citation of credible sources in the “Rough Cut”
-Aside from the issue of the development of the sources mentioned previously, I believe the author did include enough sources and quotations that actually supported the essay and added to his point that there are good alternatives to fracking. Once he fully analyzes all of the source, it will only make this section of his final project stronger.
Overall, I admired how many sources you drew into the essay and how you effectively stayed on topic and presented a good outlook on a topic that not many other would view as positive, fracking. I believe the addition of analysis for your source would aid in fitting the guideline presented in the student handbook we received.
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