The Peer Review Process

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The Peer Review Process
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What is a Peer Review?

• A peer review is a formal review of a document
  produced by a colleague, fellow scholar, or
  expert.
• Peer reviews describe the strengths and
  weaknesses of a document.
• Peer reviews evaluate a document and argue
  whether it should be published or presented.
• Peer reviewers advise writers how to improve
  their document

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Why Have a Peer Review Process?

• Good peer reviewers are active members of their
  field and can determine whether a document is
  well-researched and accurate.
• Receiving the support of ones peers and
  colleagues helps establish credibility.

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Why Have Student Peer Reviews?

• Students must learn not only how to edit their
  own work, but also the work of other writers.
• Students can greatly benefit from reviewing other
  work and identifying their strengths and
  weaknesses.
• Peer reviews offer students the benefit of seeing
  how their work affects a variety of readers.
• Peer reviews let students learn collaboratively.
  Peer review is a mutually beneficial process.

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What Should We Include in the Artists/Authors
Note?

• Goal of the work. What is the creator trying to
  accomplish?
• What process did the creator go through?For
  example, number of drafts, how much time was
  spent? What was the artistic process? What
  tools were used?
• What is the context of this work? And how does
  it relate to other elements of the webpage?

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Effective Peer Reviews are Polite, Specific, and
Helpful
I really enjoyed reading your essay. I hope you
will find my comments useful. Address the
document and NOT the author
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Bad Peer Reviews are Insulting, Ineffective, and
may have unpleasant consequences
How did you get into college? Ive never read
such crap. Did you graduate high school? This is
the worst writing Ive ever read!!!
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Good Peer Reviewing

• An effective peer review has these
  characteristics
• General comments balanced by specifics try to
  identify patterns of error
• Descriptions of what is effective and ineffective
  about a document
• Specific and helpful advice about how the weak
  areas can be improved

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How Should the Author Respond to the Peer Reviewer

• Concise summary of peer reaction to work.
• Which elements of the peer-review are you
  incorporating into your work?
• How has your work changed as a result of the
  review?

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Evaluating Creativity
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How Would You Evaluate This Image?
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What Questions Do You Have About This Work?
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What If You Knew the Following

• As an artist my goal is to explore the use of
  color for expressing
• Heat/cold
• Depth
• Three dimensionality
• This image is my 10th draft, and took me a total
  of 35 hours to complete this series of images.

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What If You Knew the Following

• My goal was to experiment with color
  combinations.
• I divided the canvas into hot and cold areas.
• I then arbitrarily picked colors to combine.
• This assignment took about an hour.

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