Write a letter for each of your peers either in a separate document and upload it as an attachment.
Here are the steps to follow to write that letter:
Write a brief paragraph first that gives your initial, general reactions of the paper. You can give some praise, but also a critical initial reaction. You are
trying to help your peer improve. Just saying that the paper is “good” is not helpful.
Now consider the notes you took, and the places where you commented. What THREE writerly issues can your peer work on. In other words, did you mostly comment
on feeling lost? Suggest concrete ways your peer could help the reader follow, a stronger and earlier thesis or purpose statement, places to develop,
questions to answer, better ways to organize the paragraphs. If you mostly commented on structure? Suggest transitions and metadiscourse to add, ways to help
the reader move from idea to idea. Did you mostly comment on the tone of the paper? Suggest real ways that the peer might reword areas for clarity, ways to
take out a too-stuffy or too-casual tone. Did you comment a lot on clarity? Point out the moments that didn’t make sense, suggest ways to reword, suggest
things like “what I think you meant is…” Did you comment mostly on details? Suggest places where the peer could provide more description, areas where you
needed more explanation, places you wrote “Huh?”
For each of those issues that you believe need improvement, write a fully developed paragraph with real, usable ways for your peer to revise and improve.