| PEER REVIEW TEMPLATE Use this template to guide your review of your partner’s essay. Answer all questions here, and feel free to add additional notes outside of the categories below. REMEMBER: Be respectful of the work your partner has put in. Treat your partner as you like to be treated. |
| TASK ORIENTATION Does the essay follow the task? How do you know this? [Look at the assignment itself and the guidelines given.] The essay follows the task that was assigned by sticking to a topic related to the scientific field with many credible sources that are available. |
| STRUCTURE Locate the thesis–and say it in your own words to be sure you understood it. Now find the topic sentences. Does each topic sentences sum up or introduce its paragraph effectively? Bacteria harmful to humans such as MRSA have evolved over the years, building up immunity against methicillin, which is used to treat most infections. One of the topic sentences in this essay talks about how all organisms have an origin followed by an evolutionary journey. Later on in the essay it says that we don’t have that much information about MRSA’s origin. With little information on it that explains why it was able to spread throughout the world. |
| SUPPORT & ANALYSIS Is evidence being used for any and all statements made? Does the author introduce, analyze, and explain the evidence? What’s the strongest piece of evidence? I’m sure that there is evidence being used since there’s information that would likely come from a source but the problem is that the information isn’t being introduced/credited in the essay. Evidence: From the day it was first discovered in 1961 to 1999 they found 359 MRSA from 20 different countries. |
| ORGANIZATION Does the paper read smoothly? Are there parts that seem out of place or confusing? (Mark these. Give suggestions if possible.) Add any transitions that would make the organization smoother. The paper reads smoothly and it’s easy for most readers to understand. I did find one sentence confusing that I pasted in the box below. |
| CLARITY Write what you consider: the clearest sentence Not all bacteria are good for humans and as time passes more advances of these microorganisms are emerging, natural selection does its wonders. the most confusing sentence The only time in human life that they are without bacteria and is stariel is when they are in their mother’s womb as soon as they come out the microorganisms are all over the new host most of them transferred by the mother |
| PROOFREADING Note here any suggested changes in wording, grammar, punctuation, or spelling: Only about two spelling errors |
| OVERALL What single change would make the most improvement in this essay? I would credit the sources in the text by giving something like, (Name, date). |
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