Peer Critique for Group Projects

You will critique as many group project drafts as there is time to do. As the time goes on, critique project drafts that have not already received a lot of comments.

Use the prompts below to guide you. You will post your PCs as comments to their post in their group blogs. The group blogs are accessible through enviroblog.


This project calls for the fulfillment of three purposes: 1) informing, 2) persuading, and 3) entertaining (taken broadly). Comment on each of these in the project. Pay attention to written and researched exposition and argument and on the media used to draw reader/viewers in, to “entertain” them.

How should they improve the informing aspects? The persuasive aspects? the use of media for engaging the reader/viewer?

Is the media they selected appropriate? Do they connect it to the issues they are writing about? Is it integrated with the written work? Is there too much of it? Too little? Just right?

Comment on the quality of the written content. Is the writing coherent? adequately proofread?

Composing this project has some unique challenges. One is how to accommodate readers in terms of ordering the site. Comment on how the project introduced readers to it, how they oriented readers, and the logic of the order they chose to lay out. Does how the piece is “chunked” make sense? Note specific moments that could use improvement. Feel free to make suggestions.

Comment on any navigation problems or issues. For example, group X places a link to such and such a website, but using the link makes it hard for you to get back to their site. What should they do about that? Or group Y links to a You Tube video that they could have embedded . . . etc.

End with an overall view or impression of the draft, its design, approach to the audience, and variety of expression. Give any advice that seems useful.