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.
o Yes Title page
o Yes Abstract
o Yes Reference page
2. After reading ONLY THE INTRODUCTION, write below what you expect the
paper to cover.
I expect it to talk about how women have change engineering and how they
have revolutionized the engineering industry.
3. Write your peers thesis statement here.
Engineering is still a male dominated field.Women do have similar qualities as
men when it comes to leading, but women have characteristics of persistent,
independent thinking pioneer; exceptionally bright intellect and those who
may have evolved a more holistic approach to life than men.

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 was written in chronological order it first started with these four
following points:

What percentage or number increase has occurred over the years of

women entering the field?
How many women have got their resignation from the work that they
do?
How many women made an impact in engineering?

Why do you think women leave the science and engineering fields?
And what do you think has been done over the years to encourage
women to stay in these fields?
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.
First paragraph: . The idea of a women engineer is just as foreign as it once
was one-hundred-twenty years ago. (Hass, et.al, 1984, pg. 183) Women
engineers in our history may be reevaluated as having contributed to the
advancement of engineering knowledge.
Second paragraph: , more women were attaining undergraduate and
graduate degrees in science and engineering. These women created 33
percent of science students, and made up only 20 percent of the total science
and engineering professionals. (Selby, et.al, 1999, pg. 61)
Third paragraph: . Many people have stressed the importance of role
models for women students for enhancing their professional contribution later
in life. (Hass, et.al, 1984, pg. 129) However, there are many reasons for the
extreme underrepresentation of women in engineering. (Hass, et.al, 1984, pg.
185)
Fourth paragraph: In order for a women to be a successful faculty member
in the overall academic enterprise, her top priority must be given to the
traditional academic responsibilities and it cannot be overemphasized. (Hass,
et.al, 1984, pg. 128) Women can be self-less and determined to take control,
matters into their own hands, when it is needed. (Bhatia, et.al, 2008, pg. 39)
Fifth paragraph: Numerous of women have left and stayed in the
engineering field. The number of women that stay doesnt compare to the
number of women that leave. The source in the relationship between family
responsibilities and employment remains unclear. (Scott, et.al, 2001, pg. 88)

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.
Did it on her paper
*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.
Yes there were many paraphrase citations.

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.

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.
No, her essay was detailed and well structured I would just recommend her to
add more graphs because she only has one.

10. Does your peer have at least one graphic? Yes she does, 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
it is good
b. How is the color scheme? Are the colors appropriately contrasting and
easy to read?
Yes, No
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.