User talk:Beachwaves

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Hello, Beachwaves, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Leafcutter Ant Peer Review
Hi Beachwaves,

I finished up my peer review on your article! You can find it in your sandbox under "Symbiotic Bacteria/Leafcutter Ant Peer Review". The topic is very interesting and the article is such a good candidate for this project. Your writing is clear + concise and it shows that you looked through a lot of scholarly sources to put together your draft. Broadly, I was interested in seeing you restructure the "Examples of Symbiotic Relationships" section in order to focus less on listing case studies and more on synthesizing the material. As such, I don't think the "Characteristics" heading of the original article wasn't half bad. It would be nice to see you to present a list of characteristics of relationships w/ symbiotic bacteria (what's an example of an amensalist relationship? Parasitic? Mutualist? What does the life cycle of symbiotic bacteria look like? Etc.), and then folding in the examples of symbiotic relationships you have already written. That way, you can keep all of the well-researched examples you put together, while using each to elaborate a key fact or characteristic of symbiotic bacteria that is essential for readers to know. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Great job so far!

Leafcutter Ant (talk) 05:00, 6 December 2021 (UTC)