Lecture
Some characteristics of peer reviewed articles
Library Instruction
(2012)
Description
An interactive, Web tutorial that highlights features of peer reviewed articles, such as in-text references, bibliographies, formal language in titles and text, etc. It is not meant to be comprehensive, it just highlights some of the most obvious features of such articles.
Keywords
- peer review,
- information literacy,
- journals,
- scholarship,
- scientific communication
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter 2012
Comments
This short tutorial is the last in a 5-part series of instructional modules about "What is Peer Review". Whereas the other modules (very short videos) concentrated on describing the process of peer review, this module concerns itself with looking at superficial features of journal articles themselves, features that often give-away that the articles are from journals.
The tutorial explains features but also uses interactive effects to draw attention to important details. For instance, users are shown a paragraph of text and then they have to click on every in-line reference that they see. Hopefully such active learning makes the tutorial more engaging for students.
Citation Information
Christopher Niemeyer. "Some characteristics of peer reviewed articles" Library Instruction (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher-niemeyer/2/