Summing up our peer reviews
13 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
The peer reviews were pretty helpful. However, I found that for many of them it was “garbage in garbage out.” I became fustrated after the second review when it began to seem as though people were just throwing stuff up (a rough outline at best) and then asked for specifiic questions when it seemed like they didn’t even make an effort to do what they asked for the reviewer to do. For instance, no citations at all and then ask “what should I do for references.”
It’s always important to get the perspective of the audience before publishing your work. I do this all of the time at work when I have one of my peers review my newsletters or other types of written communication. As the author, I know what I want to say but my writing does not always come across with my intention. I found this to be true for the class as well.
