User talk:Katherinesco/sandbox

- Only 328 words out of the required 500 are written - strong sources - good job at not writing bias towards a certain opinion - well-supported points - try adding more to the section of the article titled "Race and habitual offender sentencing" - its very short and could be a way for you to add more to your word count! Aliguckes (talk) 15:44, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Lisa's Peer Review
Overall a very well written, formatted, and sourced draft. My main point for improvement would be increasing the word count to be at 500 or more as that's one of the things we're being graded on. By my count you're only at 338, but please disregard if I'm wrong.

I think that your draft does a good job of remaining impartial and supporting all claims with strong evidence. All your evidence is very relevant to the topic and written in a way that doesn't detract from the point. There are no distractions from the work itself. All your sources are within the acceptable window of time Dr. Quave gave us.

One last point of critique would be in your sentence "It is also well documented that, in the United States as a whole, Latinos, African Americans, and American Indians are far more frequently convicted than white Americans, and they receive harsher and longer punishments than their white counterparts for committing the same crimes" where I feel the claim "it is also well documented" could be construed as bias. You cite a source that supports this, but I just think someone who disagrees might be able to nitpick you on that specific use of language and try to discredit your valid and accurate information. Overall, strong draft; keep at it! Lisaphg (talk) 03:39, 22 October 2018 (UTC)Lisa