Monday's (9/24) Blog Post

In class I do not believe we talked about the peer-review process which makes this blog seem like a summary of the article on CourseDen.

Apparently, peer-reviewed material can be wrong. This is something I did not know which makes me kind of mad honestly. What is the point of narrowing my search to only peer-reviewed articles if it is not correct information?

Why is peer-review important?

From what I understand, it really isn’t. The information can be invalid regardless whether an article is reviewed or not. This is crazy because I have searched only peer-reviewed articles in these data bases provided by GALILEO for years. There would be hundreds of articles available but NONE would be peer-reviewed. The ones that were peer-reviewed usually didn’t go with my topic.

-What are some ways that you can tell if an article is peer-reviewed, or scholarly?
First: Search Galileo, those tend to be scholarly. Second: check the peer-reviewed check box in Galileo. Third: Check their references. The source you get your peer-reviewed article plays a large part in its credibility.
-When do you want to use peer-reviewed research in your work?
You would use it when you can but it is not essential to the process of research. If you have a basic idea of what you are researching about you should have a general idea when something is far-fetched.
-Also think about in what ways YOU engage in informal and/or formal peer-review in your personal and researching life
I don’t think I engage in peer-reviewing in my personal life. In my researching life, I am often flying solo so peers do not tend to review me. If someone presented me with a topic, verbally or written, I would give them my thoughts on their concepts but not formally.


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