9/24 Blog Post

Peer review is very important and helpful to me. I find peer-review to be trustworthy and more accurate. Something that is peer-reviewed has been looked over multiple times by other scholars and many people interested in the same stuff. It is important to have something peer-reviewed because not only can the information be knowledgable but it is looked over and contains other peoples input. This can help make a source more reliable. Although many peer-reviewed articles contain information from other people, this information is not always correct in a sense. Someone could peer-review something and not completely know what it means to peer-review. Some ways you can tell if an articles is peer-reviewed or scholarly is if the information is biased, and the sponsor has a particular point of view about the material that has been written. Also always look at the length of the articles. A source that is scholarly is usually comparatively long in length and contain more details where as a peer-reviewed article is short in length. Peer-review is used to back up your information. When I am researching an article I look at articles that have already been peer-reviewed, this helps give me a better understanding of what I need to look for while doing my research. If you use peer-review it betters your chances and makes your argument stronger.