The denial letter is the specification for your appeal. It states a criterion, and the job is to demonstrate that the criterion is met in the letter's own language. I have deliberately not rounded that, because the rounding is where the argument starts.
External review after an internal denial Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.
Proposing that external review deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring topic, and drafting the skeleton here so that the argument about scope happens before the writing rather than after.
What I think belongs on it, what does not, and the three claims that would need a citation each.
The denial letter is the specification for your appeal. It states a criterion, and the job is to demonstrate that the criterion is met in the letter's own language.
I have deliberately not rounded that, because the rounding is where the argument starts.
The opening post describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
A peer-to-peer review is available in many systems and is frequently more productive than a written appeal, because it is a conversation with somebody who can decide.
I would treat the number as indicative rather than as a measurement.
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