Peer Critique Checklist I

Peer Critique Checklist
In order to help each of you to improve your writing, you will each provide a peer critique of another
student’s writing in class on February 11. You will give this document to your peer so that their
writing can be refined before being turned in to Dr. Parrill on February 13. Each of you will turn in
your original writing (peer reviewed February 11), a revised version, and the peer review document
that another student provided for you. The quality of the critique you give to another student will be
evaluated and will serve as another homework/quiz grade. If you do not turn in the critique from your
peer, your assignment will not receive a grade. While I expect you to be critical, I expect that your
criticisms will be presented in a constructive fashion with the main goal being the improvement of
your peer’s writing.
Author:
Peer:
Required elements – use a check yes to indicate presence, or no to indicate absence
Yes No
Introduces disease
Introduces potential drug targets
Discusses available structural information on drug targets
Introduces lead compounds or current drugs
Has at least 10 cited references
At least one cited reference is a review article
At least five cited references are primary research publications
Each reference is cited in the text
Each statement that is not common knowledge cites a reference (unless group of statements
from a common source are clearly preceded by a phrase indicating so)
Organization – is the document well-organized? Things to look for that indicate poor organization
include:
• Repetition – generally this indicates that regrouping will allow a common description making the
document more concise and generally more readable.
• Questions that arise while reading that get answered later in the document – this may indicate that
introductory ideas are placed too late in the document.
• Unrelated ideas in adjacent sentences with no transition.
• Lack of topic sentences at the start of each paragraph.
Provide written comments (on document or back of this form) to the author that will help him or
her to better organize this document.
Grammar – make grammatical corrections on the document itself.
Best feature – please tell the author what is best about the current version of the paper so that it doesn’t
get changed (on document or back of this form)!