What: Read and critique three of your peers. Specific reviews will be assigned. This is worth 20% of your final project grade.
Where: Carmen Peer Reviews
When: Approximately week 9
Why: To experience the peer-review process that scientists experience as part of the publication process. To provide constructive critique to your peers.
Directions: In addition to writing your short-format article, each student will also be responsible for providing peer reviews for 3 other articles from your classmates. Prof. Lower will assign each student 3 articles to review. The reviews will be based on these criteria:
- Intellectual Impact of the Article
- How well does the article function as a piece of writing (i.e. quality of language, exposition, description, voice)?
- Is the article scientifically accurate?
- Does the design, flow and the creativity of the article encourage learning?
- Broader Impact of the Article
- How well does the article function as a piece of teaching (i.e. quality of pedagogy, clarity of explanations)?
- Does the article contain all the necessary components needed to describe the story or are some things missing that could enhance the story?
- Technical Details of the Article
- Has the author included at least ten sources and at least 6 from primary journals?
- Has the author included at least 4 high-quality figures and/or tables? Did the author provide a reference for each and every figure and/or table? Could the figures be improved, if so how can they be improved?
- Has the author properly referenced their sources throughout their article with either a number or using author’s last name?
- Is the article approximately 1,000 words long?
- Based on your answers above, what is your final recommendation?
- Publish the article in its current state (the article is excellent).
- Publish the article with minor revisions (the article is very good).
- Publish the article with major revisions (the article need substantial work before it is ready for publication; this could include major changes required to fix figures/tables, major changes required to large portions of the text).
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