Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 7/In the News/Peer Review Two

Part 3 – "2+2"
List TWO compliments and TWO suggestions about the article content
 * Hints:
 * Focus on the work, not the person
 * Describe "There is...", "I see.." rather than judge "You didn't..."

Compliments I think the author did well on informing the audience of the topic and the varying sides. She also did well at organizing and executing her multiple choice questions by provoking thought and reasoning skills on the readers behalf. 

Suggestions . It seemed to me that the article lacked flow and organization. There was no real feeling of a beginning, middle, and end. Perhaps, one topic could be the focus versus two, that way the author has the room to really delve into the topic and provide a beginning(Introduction), middle (body), and end (conclusion). . I also observed that the author's sentiments were expressed in the first paragraph on the first topic but not the second. If the article is condensed to one topic area her opinion will have more of an impact, particularly at the end of the article. 

You can make compliments and suggestions that relate to specific areas of the paper or to the paper in general. I suggest a mixture of both. Focus on what's most important. Of course, you can also include more than two suggestions and more than two compliments. The goal is to help the author improve his/her article.