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Instructions: Please complete this Guided Peer Review Document with your partners Cover
Letter or Statement of Purpose

1. Circle which assignment your partner completed: Statement of Purpose / Cover Letter

2. (For a Statement of Purpose) What did your partner write as their hook?
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3. (For a Cover Letter) What did your partner write as their Salutation?
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4. What job / graduate program is your partner applying for?

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5. Why does this job / program interests them?

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6. What experience do they say they have in the field?

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7. What academic achievements, skills, etc. did they include to highlight their academic
potential / qualifications for the job.
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8. (For Statement of Purpose) What were their long-term and immediate goals?
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9. (For Cover Letter) What did they say to request future correspondence / follow-up? What
did they say to thank the recipient?
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10. What are some things you liked about your partner's Statement of Purpose / Cover
Letter?
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11. What are things they can improve / include?

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