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Peer review is one of the important elements for academic sources. According to Lunsford (2013), peer review helps the writer to see what he has written from other points of view and what strengths and weaknesses the article has. To do this, this document will look at the partner paragraph that the partner composed in the paragraph assignment. The rhetorical situation of the paragraph is that she will give a presentation for a small class of HSC History Extension students at her former high school. The purpose of the paragraph is to help the audience understand what postmodernism is because postmodernism is a complex and indefinable ideology that is difficult for most people to understand. First, this article will show the partner paragraph. Second, this document will review the paragraph and offer feedback by considering style and structure, use of rhetorical appeals, incorporation of research, grammar and punctuation, tone and voice, word choice, including use of jargon and definitions, flow and transition. In conclusion, this article will reflect how this article applied style and method to the rhetorical situation of a peer review, what strategies, techniques and sources this article used to provide feedback to the partner, and the experience of the peer review process. even. It's easy to understand what the paragraph is saying even if they're not the intended audience thanks to the effective word choice and method of incorporating research. For example, the writer avoids using jargon since the rhetorical situation is that he is making a presentation and the audience does not know much about special words. Furthermore, the research incorporation method is credible as it uses books that are widely used and popular among HSC History Extension students to enhance its cr...... middle of paper...... review paragraph, it is It was easy to give some examples by referring to numbered sentences. Furthermore, this article has used some sources related to academic writing and widely used in that field so that the review increases its credibility. After completing this assignment, I learned that credibility plays an important role in revision as the revision should be persuasive to explain to the writer how the paragraph could be better. Credibility is necessary not only for revision but also for rhetoric since the communicator must illustrate the text for the audience in rhetorical situations. Works Cited Lunsford, AA 2013, The Everyday Writer, 5th edition, Bedford/St. Martin's, Boston, MA.Weida, S & Stolley, K 2013, Using Rhetorical Strategies for Persuasion, The Purdue University Online Writing Lab, viewed 4 May 2014, https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/04/