Literature Review Peer Review Worksheet

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You must conduct a peer review of ONE of your fellow classmates literature review
draft. You will need to email a copy of your review to the peer whose work you
reviewed, so that they can incorporate your feedback. In addition, you will need to
email (or hand over in hard copy) their draft, which you will have marked up, as per
some of the questions. If you fail to do this and your professor receives an email or
other notification of this, you will lose all of your peer review points, even if you
uploaded it to Blackboard.

1. Check for the following elements in your peers draft. Only place a check
mark in the box if the element is present AND formatted correctly.
Title page
Abstract
Reference page
2. After reading ONLY THE INTRODUCTION, write below what you expect the
paper to cover.
I expect the paper to be about the background and conflict of the effects of
medication in the Civil War
3. Write your peers thesis statement here.
These questions will narrow the purpose of the literature review by giving a
better detail on the background and conflict of the effects of the medication
during the civil war.

4. How is this paper organized? If by theme, write the themes below. If

chronologically, writing the beginning and end points below. If there is no
organizational theme, write that below and make a specific suggestion for an
organizational theme. DO NOT simply write chronological or thematic.
You must also let the person know what themes you think they should
organize by, etc.
This paper is organized into three themes
o How amputations made a difference in the civil war
o How the civil war changed modern medicine
o Why the medicine given to the civil war soldiers was an important
issue
5. For each paragraph, highlight the topic sentence, then highlight the
corresponding key words in the paragraph that follows that topic sentence.
For example:
 Experts claim there are various reasons as to why children participate in
cyberbullying. Jose Smith, a University of California researcher of behavioral
science, argues that the mere fact that there is a computer screen between
the bully and the bullied accounts for the prominence of cyberbullying (Smith,
2005). It is much harder to bully someone face-to-face than it is to bully
someone through the privacy of a computer or phone. This removal may also
account for why cyberbullying is so widespread. No longer do bullies have to
hold to the stereotype of being larger or stronger than the peers they bully
(Jones, 2008, p. 17). When your bullying medium is text-based through a
computer or other device, the size of the bully no longer matters.

6. In the draft that youve received to peer review, highlight (either

electronically or manually) every in-text citation you see.
a. Highlight paraphrase citations in one color.
b. Highlight direct quotation citations in another color.
*Note: when you get your own peer review back, use these highlights to
help you determine if youve cited properly. Remember, paraphrase
citations are (Authors Last Name, year). And direct quotation citations are
(Authors Last Name, year, p. ).
7. Comment on the amount of highlighting you did for question six. Hopefully
there are many paraphrase citations and few direct quotation citations. Between
each paraphrase and/or direct quotation citations should be uncited sentences that
are the authors own interpretation or opinion.

There were a few citations I almost missed because they werent in the right
format of (Authors last name, year). However, there were more paraphrased
citations than direct quote citations which is good and there was at least a
sentence between each citation.

8. Look through your peers paper and mark any areas that follow the following
format: X said this. Y said that. Z said something else. Let your peer know how you
marked these sections below.
*Note: If your peer reviewer marked sections for this, you can fix them by
comparing and contrasting the different articles, noting where they are
similar and where they disagree.

I have underlined the places where they follow the format X said this. Y said
that. Z said something else.
9. Does your peer need to add any additional sections, such as a Current
Situation, History, Methods and/or Standards, or Questions for Further
Research sections? If so, let them know which sections.

Id say the information written was good, however, there needs to be more
information in each section and maybe if another section was added, it
 should be about amputation methods and place it after the section regarding
the difference that amputations made in the civil war.

10. Does your peer have at least one graphic? Yes, No.
a. Is that graphic appropriately sized? I.e. can you easily make out
important details? Good as is, Needs to be larger, Needs to be smaller
b. How is the color scheme? Are the colors appropriately contrasting and
easy to read?
Yes, No

Im sure in color, the picture would have a nice contrast, but because it was
printed in black and white its a bit difficult to see whats going on in the
photo

c. Is the graphic cited at the bottom edge? Yes, No

d. Is the graphic appropriately explained in the text? Yes, No.
11. Use the students reference page to make sure that each listed reference in
the reference page shows up at least once in an in-text citation. If a citation
appears in the reference page, but does not appear in an in-text citation, copy paste
that citation here.
*Note: When you get your own peer review back, should you see a citation
here, you will need to incorporate information from that source into your
paper and properly in-text cite it. If you do not, that reference will not count
as one of your seven required sources and you will lose points.