Peer CSE

Peer Response - CSE - Science Writing

Please use the following considerations when doing your partner's peer response for the Science essay.

Peer Partner:

Which Scientific Format is being used? CS? CN? IEEE? ACS? AMA? Other:_____

Does the essay have at least 10 superscript notations in the text of the paper?

Is this paper at least 85% completed (including references and citations)?

Do these superscripts correspond to the Cited References that appears after the text of the essay?

Is the numbering of the superscripts sequential (CS) (1,2,3,4,5, etc) in the Reference List? Or is the numbering system different? Explain inf not CS.

Is the CS numbering of the superscripts properly sequential and repeated in text? OR Does it follow and numbered according to an alphabetized list (CN)? OR describe the way the in-text citations are organized.

The sequence of superscript numbers are based on 1. alphabetical order (or) 2. order of appearance in paper.

How many different superscript numbers are there? How many citations are there in the paper?

Were at least 1 or 2 science journals used? Were there at least 5 CREDIBLE sources cited? Were they listed correctly?

Were there at least 3 sources published in the current year?

Were at least one of the citations refer to multiple sources (at least 2 sources). Example ^{3, 5}

Was the introduction interesting? Was it effective? Was the thesis stated well?

Did the essay make sense? Was it logical?

Was the essay written well? Was it interesting to read or was it boring?

What suggestions do you have to further explain the scientific concept?

Did your partner describe the scientific concept well enough for you to understand it?

Was the essay written with an academic voice?

Was the CSE formatting done well?

Were authors introduced properly?

Were sources evaluated and compared?

Did your partner create a discussion between the sources?

Was a counter argument/foil used?

Spelling errors?

Grammatical errors?

Rubric Score (1-6)