GUIDELINE FOR PEER COMMENTS

As of November 1st 2001, if you have completed a first draft of your MA Project and are thinking about submitting it to the Official Reader, please:

1. obtain two peer comments BEFORE your submit the MA Project for the FIRST reading by the Official Reader. Please ask two current students or alumni to provide these peer comments. If a peer is very difficult to obtain, then it is permissible to ask an experienced colleague to provide the comment (please let the Program Director know first).
2. ensure that the two peer comments are 2 to 3 pages in length, and include a brief summary of the main ideas of the project, and are followed by comments on the ideas presented (relevance, usefulness, adding to others' ideas, stimulating, publishable, practical etc etc). These should therefore be CRITICAL comments.
3. ask the both peer readers to also EDIT the project for spelling and grammar mistakes, awkward expressions, effective use of diagrams, figures and tables, Bibliography and APA style, and heading and sub-heading formats/organization.
4. ask both peer readers to also COMMENT on whether it was well-written, easy to understand, and make suggestions re the way that the project is organized. Also, if appropriate and necessary make comments of the literature survey, the data analysed, the results obtained, and the conclusions.
5. note that once you have obtained both your peer comments, you should use them to make changes to your project and THEN submit your project for its first reading. Please send in both your peer comments with your first submission.

Note: If you have already put in your project for its first (or more) reading and haven't as yet obtained your peer reader comments, then please do so before the next submission to the Official Reader. Use those comments also to help you improve the project.