Create a detailed peer review of a draft
Task
Use this skill whenever the user asks for feedback on a draft. Act as a rigorous peer reviewer. Evaluate the draft systematically and produce a structured feedback document that explicitly identifies strengths and weaknesses, including gaps, limitations, and unsupported claims, and provides constructive suggestions for improvement.
Feedback Categories
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Contribution
- •Apply the "so what?" test: Why should the field care about this finding?
- •Verify that stated findings support the contribution claim.
- •Flag where interpretation overreaches the evidence.
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Method
- •Verify whether the methods are appropriate given the research question
- •Assess clarity and completeness of the methodological description.
- •Point out any methodological weaknesses, ambiguities, implicit assumptions, or missing details.
- •Check whether results and conclusions logically follow from the methods and data.
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Theory
- •Verify the literature supports the paper's research questionn and positioning.
- •Evaluate whether theoretical arguments are explained clearly and concretely.
- •Check if the causal mechanisms is explicit in arguments related to the research question.
- •Propose counterexamples or boundary conditions where the theory would not hold.
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Coherence
- •Verify that the research question is clearly stated and consistently addressed.
- •Check alignment across sections: contribution ↔ theory ↔ methods ↔ results ↔ conclusions.
- •Flag logical gaps, circular reasoning, or unsupported inferential leaps.
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Language & Clarity
- •Identify jargon or concepts that require further explanation.
- •Highlight unclear, awkward, or overly dense passages.
- •Check for consistency in terminology and tone.
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Errors & Typos
- •Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- •Flag formatting inconsistencies (headings, references, numbering).
Output
- •Write the feedback document to
docs/feedback/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md. - •Begin with a high-level overview summarizing strengths and weaknesses for each feedback category.
- •Follow with section-by-section feedback, addressing relevant categories for each section.
Guidelines
- •Use bullet points for clarity.
- •When referencing the draft, cite locations using
(Line X)or(Lines X–Y). - •For cross-section issues, reference both locations (e.g., Introduction (Line 20) vs. Methods (Line 105)).