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Peer review
Complete your peer review exercise below, providing as much constructive criticism as possible. The more detailed suggestions you provide, the more useful it will be to your classmate. Make sure you consider each of the following aspects: LeadGuiding questions:
ContentGuiding questions:
Tone and BalanceGuiding questions:
Sources and ReferencesGuiding questions:
OrganizationGuiding questions:
Images and MediaGuiding questions: If your peer added images or media
For New Articles OnlyIf the draft you’re reviewing is for a new article, consider the following in addition to the above.
Overall impressionsGuiding questions:
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General info
- Whose work are you reviewing?
(provide username)
- Link to draft you’re reviewing
- Link to the current version of the article (if it exists)
Evaluate the drafted changes
Overall impressions
Great work here! most of your stuff looks pretty good, so I got pretty specific with my suggestions. I did have to base most of this off of the Wikipedia page because the PDF sent to me only had the first two pages (up until “It has bisexual flowers that bloom from April through June…”) I will update my review once I get the rest of it though! Hopefully it’s still helpful and I’m not just pointing out what the vandal has done!
Lead
This looks pretty good! I think it may be beneficial to add a little more information to flesh out your background info a little better.
Content
Description
Great description it paints a clear picture and links available wiki articles. I think adding an image showing it’s unique iridescence would be helpful. It would also be interesting to explain what makes it’s iridescence unique.
Consider
- rewording “The flowers are tan to purple in color on the outside and lighter on the inside” this sounds a little awkward
- moving “The diploid chromosome number is 26″ this feels like it doesn’t have anything tying it to the rest of the description section
Distribution and habitat
This section is missing any citations! the information is good but it needs to be cited it seems likely that this is due to the vandal on your page.
Conservation
Is it threatened anywhere else or just in Maine? it would be great to flesh this out a little more
Toxicity
This is really interesting!
Consider:
Uses
Do any of your sources cover the effects of aristolochic acid on the Native Americans? it would be cool to see more on this.
Consider
- finding which Native Americans used A. canadense to ensure that this information isn’t hearsay and can be backed up!
- defining admixture
- the two paragraphs of of this section don’t feel well tied together it may be add more information disseminating between everyday uses and toxicity to show what modern use looks like or explain why it was used despite its other effects
Tone and Balance
You are very clear throughout your article and you maintain a neutral academic tone.
Sources and references
The sources seem scholarly and reliable. I’m sure you have more that aren’t listed/were removed by the vandal, but it would be nice to see more
Organization
This article is well organized and has good flow
Images and media
The images shown in the PDF have create captions, but the ones left at the bottom of the page (under the uses section) could use stronger captions to help them fit in
