How should a friend go about writing a Peer Evaluation? What is the ideal format, what topics should be included, how long should it be, and how can you really make a friend stand out?
To anyone who has asked a friend for a peer evaluation: how would you want your friend to go about writing your recommendation? What would you want them to include?
Any advice, links or comments is greatly appreciated.
<p>One of my friends wrote a peer evaluation for me. He is a grade below me and we have known each other for about 5 years. I would definitely talk about how my friend has behavied among students since students do "stuff" that many teachers may not know about. I did not get a chance to read about what my friend had to say about me, but he did check every single box as the highest ranked(something like top 2%.) This, I though, was foolhardy. Even if your peer is your best friend, you should not check top scores for each category. Above all, be honest.</p>
<p>I have to ask my friend tomorrow if he'll write one for me (Davidson). The peer rec is a really specific form though; it only asks about five questions and gives about 3"-4" of space to answer each one. </p>
<p>I want him to be honest...I know I'm not perfect and I do have weaknesses. I would hope that he'll be fair and highlight the good, but at least touch on what weaknesses he notices.</p>
<p>I'm writing one for a friend, and, I think, the most important thing is that you make him/her look good while being honest. They will be comparing it to other letters of recomendations, and if, for example, one says the guy is really outgoing, and the other says he is quiet, they both might lose their credibility and hinder his/her chances... obviously, you want the recomendation to help your friend, so you want to write good things, but, in order to do this, make sure you are accurate...simply write about your friend, as if you were doing a character sketch in english, except you want to emphasize his/her good points... also, i'd try and make it somehow unique---and the only way to do this is to provide some accurate and perceptive insight into your friend, for, if it is perceptive enough, it will naturally be unique to that individual, and probably stand out from a lot of BS in other peer-evals... </p>
<p>hope that helps, and good luck!</p>
<p>so, I concur with juba2jive</p>