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By Wilson Purcell

My final project can be found here

Peer Review:

To review my project, I asked three of my roommates to take a look at my project. I explained to them the background and aim of my project and the way the media platform was supposed to work. At this point, I had largely finished the project, but I wanted to know if there were any glaring mistakes in my analysis or difficulties with the platform that I had overlooked.

I asked my roommates the following questions:

1) Do you feel that the narrative flows well from one section to the next?

2) Does the layout allow the user to understand the ways in which the different examples of symbolism often overlapped?

3) Do you feel that my argument or presentation are lacking in any way? If yes, how so?

4) Have I included enough primary source examples to craft a convincing analysis?

I included the background, aim and media description with these questions and a link to the project in a word document, and I sent each roommate the document. I asked them all to look over the project and answer the questions, then send the document back to me.

The first question received positive responses. Each critic reported that the analysis flowed well, though one claimed to have some trouble navigating Scalar.

The second question also received positive responses. They each reported that the analysis clearly explained notes that employed multiple types of imagery. I was pleased with this response, but I had wanted to take it further. The Scalar Path Map should have shown the ways in which these images were interconnected by connecting them on the same path, but I ran into trouble getting the software to do cooperate. Instead, it would duplicate the page on the Path Map. I explained this struggle to the reviews, and I plan to work to correct the problem.

My roommates gave me some criticism with the third questions. One complained that the interface was not user-friendly, and he suggested including images on the Path Map. Another, reminded me to emphasize that the analysis was my interpretation of the notes to avoid any confusion for readers.

The fourth question also received positive responses. Each reviewer felt that I adequately supported my argument.

The peer-review did not prove all that useful for (I think) two reasons. One, I used a working draft of the project for the peer review, so a lot of the questions were issues that I had already thought about in creating the draft. Two, the questions were a bit too pointed. I found that my only open-ended question received the most varied responses, so I should consider asking for suggestions instead of asking for an evaluation the next time I need to ask for friendly criticism.