Date:
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Instructions:
1. Open the Technical Object Description Assignment to be familiar with the assignment and criteria while responding to these questions.
2. Select a draft to review that has not already been reviewed or only has one review.
3. Enter your feedback in the “Technical Object Description Peer Review Form” and return it to your peer.
4. You must provide at least 2-3 sentences for each point in order to be eligible to receive full credit. Also, if a drafter does not address one of the points listed, you will need to state that the point is not addressed and make a recommendation of how the writer might work this important aspect of the assignment into their draft.
5. You may not simply copy the language from the peer review form in your responses, as this is not in the spirit of the assignment. Your peer review should go beyond confirmation of meeting the assignment to offer constructive feedback.
Peer Review Questions
1. Look at the title of the description. It should be sufficiently precise and informative. How does it achieve this goal? Provide suggestions if it does not achieve this goal. Write the title here.
2. Look at the headings in the description. They should avoid long noun strings, be informative, and guide the reader. Describe how the headings fulfill or fail to fulfill these criteria. Are there places in the document where headings might be added?
3. Are there places in the document where the writer should employ lists? Where and why?
4. Judge the overall coherence of the description. In both large and small ways, is the description written in a coherent fashion? Suggest concrete revisions to improve coherence at all levels or explain why the description does not need improvement.
5. A description is not an instruction set. Are there places in the description where the writer shifts into an instructional mode, giving step-by-step instructions on how to use the object rather than descriptions of the object? If such places exist, suggest revisions that turn the instructional text into descriptive text .
6. The description should be free of grammatical/mechanical errors and be easy to understand for the specific audience listed in the introduction. Are there any grammatical/mechanical errors (including problems with punctuation)? Are there any consistent problems with diction, usage, or words misused that you can point out to the author?
7. All technical terms should be defined. Provide two examples of terms that need to be defined for the target audience.
8. Rate how well the paper aligns with the assignment guidelines (minimal = does not meet assignment guidelines; medium = meets about 75% of the assignment guidelines; very high = meets 95% or above of the assignment guidelines). Minimal Low Medium High Very high
9. Suggestions for meeting the assignment guidelines
10. Write a final comment to your peer about two of the overall strengths and one overall weakness of the of first draft.
