Peer review

referred to as research databases. They are particularly useful for retrieving articles in academic journals, repositories, archives, or other group of scientific or other articles. Academic journals consist of present original research, review articles, and book reviews in different scholarly disciplines. In academic journals, new research can be introduced and critiqued, just as old research can also be critiqued (Wysocki). So, it is easy to see why these research databases are an important…

In her article, “Science Isn’t Broken,” Christie Aschwanden- a science and health journalist and recipient of a Santa Fe Institute Journalism Fellowship in Complexity Science- discusses the consequences resulting from the recent lack of peer-review, the portrayal of the scientific community due to these effects, and the true nature of research. According to Aschwanden (2015), one of the prominent contributors to the public’s lack of confidence in science is statistical manipulation and biases.…

When tasked with the responsibility of teaching, it is my intent to inspire interest and excitement in my students regarding the subject. However, I understand that every single student will not develop an interest in the material. Therefore, I believe my job is to engage students by providing them with skills that will enhance their academic identities, even when they have no interest in the subject. By enhancing students’ academic identities, I am providing them with skills that can be…

In English 100, peer reviewing rough draft essays has been a helpful process that has helped me improve in my writing. I used peer reviewing as a tool to make the necessary corrections that were needed in one of my essays. The comments and grammar suggestions from my peers have been useful to make modifications in my writing. For example, when I received a graded paper back, I read over the peer review comments and used what was needed to make the Essay stronger. If a comment stated to include…

The first day of English 101 I was unsure what to expect. As a running start student, college was foreign and daunting. Over the quarter, this definitely changed as I became more comfortable with the college environment and assignments. My worries for this class quickly dissipated over the first week or so once I knew it wasn’t that drastic a change. After receiving the assignment calendar, I felt ready for the classwork. I was equipped with the readings and usually completed my work before the…

You just found out you have to conduct research for a paper in your course but you are not sure how to get started. Nonetheless, you felt stressed or confused about using the Ashford University Library that is required of you. On the condition that you need to find physical library resources such as books, magazines, journals multimedia for references for this paper. In this case, we are going to explore in-depth on the benefits of using the Ashford University Library. First, to explain the…

Peer review is not efficient with regards to time consumption. Peer review is highly subject to both personal and professional bias. The process can be a rather expensive way to verify research. These are all deficiencies that, while certainly problematic, are acceptable side effects of effectively reviewed work. However, from much of the ISP Fall reading collection, it is beyond reasonable to extract that the peer review process is not achieving that final goal effectively enough. Rather than…

agreed/disagreed with. Pre-writing helped to pinpoint what my beliefs/ideas were in both the personal culture paper as well as the quote-directed paper. Peer review and tutoring really helped to improve the conciseness of my papers, drawing all my thoughts and ideas into clear, cohesive paragraphs that flowed smoothly from one to the next. My peers and my tutor also picked out errors that I tended to overlook; they were unbiased and were able to point out errors such as awkward wording and…

In discovering information that is put into resources we use, such as textbooks, scientists test their hypotheses with a specific method. This process, called the scientific method, is part of our instinct. Using this process to prove scientific theories has been used for thousands of years, evolving over time until it reached its current form. This process is the foundation of science, being very important in helping scientists to be able to build off work that was previously done. The…

Introduction to Literature Review English language learners have had a history of not regularly attending school and this has led researchers to ask the question, why is school attendance among this demographic so low and what is at the root of the problem? Several researchers in various fields have attempted to answer this very question. They have approached the topic in different ways and have generated various reasons for the occurrence. There are three main issues that the researchers…