Blog Prompt 9/24/12- Peer Review

Peer review is important because it gives us as the writer a chance to have someone else go over our work and find grammatical and punctuation errors as well as make sure we are properly using citations and that our arguments/sentence flow makes sense. Some ways that you can tell if an article is peer-reviewed or scholarly is to look at the author, the peer reviewed pieces are not often written by experts but scholarly journals are written by experts in the topic. Peer reviewed articles are usually shorter in length and less detailed than scholarly pieces. Basically, peer-reviewed articles are more "laid back" and often for casual reading while scholarly articles are professional and for serious reading. Using peer review once you have your first rough draft can be very be beneficial as well as right before you turn your assingment in. Peer review is not always accurate and should not be the "end all, be all" of your research but it is a good start and it is always good to get a second eye to look at you work. One way I use peer review in my everyday life is with clothing. I have to have my mom‘s or another woman approval before I will by anything. I count on them to review my outfit and see if it needs some changes. Word count: 245