Peer Review Process and Paper Presentation

By Dr. Elsa-Sofia Morote

Introduction

A webquest is an inquiry-oriented lessons.  This webquest is prepared for understanding the peer review process and to help you to improve your own paper while reviewing others researchers papers.

The Task

To develop skills for your preparing a research paper you need to develop a thorough understanding of the different possibilities open to you as you present your paper. One way for you to get there is to critically analyze a number of papers and discuss them from multiple perspectives. That's your task in this exercise.

By the end of this lesson, you and your group will answer some questions presented in worksheets below. Each of you will have a specific role in the peer review committee. You will have a good understanding on how to write a successful research paper.

Resources

You and your team will receive 3 or More proposals. You will analyze them using several resources such as

• Publication Manual- APA

• Internet Resources

• Materials provided by your professor
  

The Process- First Part

Proposal 1.

Proposal 2. 

Proposal 3.   

Proposal 4. 

Proposal 5. 

Proposal 6

We will create four new teams.

1) Team of stylists

proposal 5, proposal 2,  proposal 3, proposal 4

2) Team of literature reviewers

proposal 1, and proposal 3, proposal 5, proposal 6

3) Designers

Proposal 1, proposal 2 and proposal 4

• First, each participant will have a hard copy of the worksheet. To answer the questions given above, you'll break into groups of three or four. Within the group, each of you will take on one of the following roles:
  

  The Stylist Expert: You value APA style  a great deal. You believe that too much time is wasted in today's research papers on unfocused activity and learners not knowing how to write it correctly. To you, a good research paper should present ideas clearly in APA style. All citations, tables and figures should follow the required style.  You also concern about definitions of terms and copywriting issues. Worksheet

  The Designer: Your main concern is the design of the project. Is the project interesting for the conference that is planned to submit? Are the techniques used appropiate for the study? Are the conclusions valuable? Worksheet

  The Literature review expert: Higher level thinking is everything to you. There's too much emphasis on factual recall in research today. The only justification for review of literature is if it opens up the possibility that students will have to analyze information, synthesize multiple perspectives, and take a stance on the merits of something. You also value research that allow for criticism on the part of the learner. Worksheet

  The presenters Presenters will prepare their PowerPoint presentation with the major points. Presenters will present their papers and the experts: Lit review, Design and Style will critic them.

• Individually, you'll examine each of the proposals and use the worksheet to write down some notes of your opinions of each from the perspective of your role. You'll need to examine each proposal fairly quickly. Don't spend more than 15 minutes on any one proposal.
  
  
• When everyone in the group has seen all the proposals, it's time to get together to answer the questions. One way to proceed would be to go around and poll each team member for their perspectives. Pay attention to each of the other perspectives, even if at first you think you might disagree with them.
  
  
• One person in each group should open up a clean worksheet to record the group's thoughts. You must have a separate worksheet for each proposal.

•  Post conclusions on Blackboard's discussion board (corresponding session--e.g. Lit reviewers, designers...)

• Take time to review your own proposal based on your new expertise or review candidates' questionnaire.

THE PROCESS SECOND PART

Now we will mix up the groups and create a peer committee for each paper.

- There will be three committees:

When debriefing time is called, use the corresponding file to speak from as you report your results to the whole class via Blackboard's discussion board. You may use the document camera to point out your comments on text.

Conclusion

Ideally, this exercise will provide you with a larger pool of ideas to work with on your final project. The best research paper is yet to be written. It might be yours!

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