Personally, I have written many papers over the years that I have been in school and I feel that I can give a good critique. The best critiques that I have given are grammatically fixing someone's paper. In high school, I had the same teacher for the first three years that I had to take english and she was a grammar nazi. Instead of really learning the best way to construct a paper, I learned how to make a paper sound grammatically correct. The most common problem that people need help with is staying in the same tense throughout their paper. Another mistake that most students make is knowing what pronouns to use. Also, clarity is often a mistake that most students make. Often times they are too vague about the subject they are writing about. Many mistakes can be made throughout a paper, and I feel that grammatically I can help others correct these easy mistakes. Good constructive criticism is seen when someone is trying to offer their assisstance to someone else's idea. It is not seen when the help from someone else changes that person's paper into something that is their idea and then becomes completely turned around. The biggest thing to remember is that this is someone else's paper and not yours so help them by reading the paper from their point of view and offer suggestions about they could do differently so that their opinion shines through the paper.
A problem that I have is using the same choice of words and making the paper sound too similar throughout. Reading a paper that I write sometimes is like reading how to write bs about everything you just wrote all over again. So the biggest thing someone can help me out with is to eliminate the bs in my paper and suggest new word ideas because when it comes to that I am not very good at thinking about how to change the use of my verbs or adjectives.
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