Questions to mull over as you browse peers' essays

Here is a list of questions to ask yourselves as you browse and comment on your peers' fourth essays: their original perspectives on Kumamoto (or essays on other topics if their third essays were about Kumamoto).

1. Audiences: How would you describe members of the primary, secondary and tertiary (or other) audiences of the essay that you are reviewing? Does the author explain to whom he/she is writing in the introductory paragraph?
   
2. Purposes: What does the author of the essay expect audience members to know, learn and do with regard to the subject matter of the essay? Does the author express the purposes of her/his essay in the introductory paragraph?
   
3. Content: How do the main points of paragraphs following the introduction suit the audience of the essay? How do the main points of each body paragraph relate to the purpose of the essay? Do any of the body paragraphs contain information or opinions unrelated to the topic, purposes and audiences of the essay? What additional information might be helpful or necessary for the author to add, in order to achieve expressed or intended purposes of the essay?
   
4. Organization: Does the introductory paragraph of the essay briefly introduce the main point of each of the body paragraphs? Do each of the body paragraphs focus on one - and only one - main point related to the topic, purpose and audience of the essay? Does the concluding paragraph summarize the main points of all of the body paragraphs, in a fashion parallel to their presentation in the introduction?
5. Form: What suggestions can you make for improving word choices, sentence structures, grammaticality, spelling, punctuation or layout of the essay?