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The document discusses credibility of sources for research and reflects on a past experience with peer review. It outlines three important elements for establishing source credibility: title/scholarly nature, publisher/sponsor, and author credentials. Using faulty sources could result in inaccurate information being used. It also discusses gaining understanding of one's own work and struggles by reviewing a friend's assignment, and trying to write praise equally with criticism during peer reviews.

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Reading Response 4

The document discusses credibility of sources for research and reflects on a past experience with peer review. It outlines three important elements for establishing source credibility: title/scholarly nature, publisher/sponsor, and author credentials. Using faulty sources could result in inaccurate information being used. It also discusses gaining understanding of one's own work and struggles by reviewing a friend's assignment, and trying to write praise equally with criticism during peer reviews.

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Zoe Newell

Professor Thames

ENC1102 0103

5 February 2021

Writing Response 4

1. What are three important elements of establishing the credibility of potential sources?

What negative outcomes are possible if you base your research on faulty or deceptive

sources?

One of the first aspect used to check credibility should be the consideration of the title,

things to look for are “words in the title such as Journal, Review, and Quarterly may

indicate that the periodical is a scholarly article” (Lunsford 96). Determining if an article

is scholarly or popular gives information into the value of the information for research.

Other essential elements to determining the creditability of the source include the

evaluation of the publisher or sponsor and the author’s credentials that show the

credibility of the information. If faulty or deceptive sources are used, some or much of

the information may not be accurate and cannot be trusted to be accurate infringing on

the reliability of the information you contribute to the discussion.

4. Reflect on a time you have engaged in a peer-review. What is something positive you

gained from it? What didn’t go as well as you would have liked? How does that

experience shape your perception of the peer-review activities in this class?


I did a peer review for a friend who was not in the same class as me, though I did not

have the same assignment, discussing different parts of her assignments helped me better

understand I have had trouble with in the past. In smaller assignments, such a s short

response, evaluating my friend’s work helped me better understand ways I could have

written it better since we had responded to the same topic. These have formed a fairly

positive perception as I have found it nearly as beneficial to evaluate other people’s work

as I do from the feedback on my own. While evaluating peer sources, I typically try to

“challenge [myself] to write as many praise comments as criticisms” (Straub 223). I

understand they faced similar struggles to me and I understand that there were more

difficult parts and how accomplished I would feel if I struggled with a piece of work then

received praise.

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