Dear Peter,
I will be honest in my response: I am completely snowed under with work at the moment with numerous important deadlines, so unfortunately I am unable to read your essay soon. However, from reading your abstract I hope (and intend) to read it soon. I will certainly not score you a 1. I also seem to have been hit recently with a few very low scores. I think that scoring 1 is a misunderstanding and misuse of the scoring system. No essay is worth 1, unless no effort has been put in at all.
Best regards,
Paul