Good features

1. Structure of sentences and paragraphs really helpful.  Also,
Halmos's overview of the entire writing process (BJ could provide
successive revisions of a whole paper - would that help too? YES)

   - understanding how structure helps convey meaning clearly

2. There is a writing style for mathematics and mathematical
expressions!

3. Peer review works well.  Got useful comments on my paper, learned
useful things by reading others' papers (and comments on them)



Possible Improvements

1. More on structure of whole paper, how to tell story within each
section and how to tell overall story of paper. SEMESTER CLASS (still
6 units...)!  Do a full-paper review earlier in the mini, so we can
think about the story quickly... and have the story in our minds as we
read the rest of the paper.

  have the author do a paper outline after comments?
  have the reviewer outline the paper?

2. Comment on some sections other than what the author marks (though
commenting on what the author marks was very helpful!) (option: maybe
work through sections in order week by week, as a possible option for
students)

3. Figures and graphs (maybe cleveland 83?)

4. more practice writing and critiquing mathematics and mathematical
expressions (have some "stock" examples in case none of the papers
have this)

5. work on deadlines and review cycle for papers, so authors and
others have a chance to read and digest comments before class

  - deadlines reasonable, complain more about late reviews




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Salon suggestions:

* need to upload to individual folders rather than upload and move
* highlighting very wonky. seems to depend on nature of pdf, maybe
  depends on graphical material embedded in text

* too many vertical scrollbars

* comments get randomly replicated

* context identificaiton difficult

* better than canvas peer grading

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Who should take this class:

* whoever kathryn and anjali say should take it

* second semester of second year (2nd or 3rd mini)

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Suggested exercises:

1. paragraph jumble puzzle (gedankenexperiment)

2. Write three things you took away from the paper (could be good for
   a first "overall read" in class)

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presentation covered in ADA
also writing != presentation

(some sort of "principles of presenting" would be useful in ADA or in
a separate course -- not just critiques of whatever students present)