The purpose of this peer review assignment was to provide critical and constructive feedback to my peer’s assignment while being positive and professional. I observed the shortcomings of the assignment and have listed out the strengths and weaknesses of this definition.

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To: Coco Chen, ENGL 301 Student

From: Daniel Tsui, ENGL 301 Student

Date: October 5, 2021

Subject: Peer Review for Definitions of Riparian

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The definition of Riparian for was very enjoying to read as well as interesting and informative.  With that in mind, here are some suggestions to further improve the definition!

 

Grammar:  Some slight errors in your grammar.  Revising the subsection headers in the expanded definition section to more general terms such as “1. Where is Riparian” to “1. Location of Riparian”, “2. Its Constituent Components” to “2. Characteristics of Riparian” and “3. Its EcoFunctions” to “3. Riparian Features”. Capitalizing your sentence for the parenthetical definition and avoid starting sentences with “because” would help immensely.

 

Detailedness:  The expanded definition contained lots of useful information, however, as a non-technical reader in natural environments, there was trouble identifying where the alluvial aquifer, subduction zones were in (Fig. 3).  Perhaps a short explanation of each and/or placing labels on (Fig. 3) would help with understanding where the terms belong.

 

Conciseness: The definitions are concise for the most part. The clarity of the expanded definitions could be improved a little in my opinion. It would be helpful to change some sentence such as “The figure below…” to “Fig. number” to allow the reader to easily locate which figure you are referring to.

 

Criteria: This definition of Riparian meets all the basic requirements, containing three different definitions of the same word at different levels of understanding and adequate list of sources used. Although not necessary, turning the links into hyperlinks (blue links) in the references can make source checking easier for the reader.

 

Hopefully the suggestions made are  valuable for your upcoming assignment in the revision of this definition.  I believe that what you have already is great and that minor fixes should make this definition assignment an even better one. Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions!

https://blogs.ubc.ca/engl301-99a-2021wa/2021/09/30/assignment-13-defining-riparian/