PEER REVIEW CR#2
Author’s name:
Reviewer’s name:
Step 1: Read your paper out loud. Feel free to stop periodically to make notations or
changes.
Step 2: Exchange papers. Read your peer’s paper Annotate and record your impressions
(avoid editing).
Step 3: Compose a “reverse outline” of the paper. We are doing this to watch for
coherency between transitions, insuring that the paper develops and maintains the. Write
out the author’s thesis. Then, writer out each topic sentence for each paragraph, and
under that sentence, try to come to some kind of understanding of the paragraph’s focus.
The intent here is to check for coherency not lonely between paragraph, but also within
the paragraphs themselves.
Thesis:
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Topic sentence paragraph #2 or #3:
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Topic sentence paragraph #4:
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Topic sentence paragraph #5:
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Topic sentence paragraph #6:
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Topic sentence paragraph #7:
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Topic sentence paragraph #8:
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