Writing Exercise #10

Describe the process of peer review to someone who does not frequently read scientific articles. In your response, consider the pros and cons of peer review and how that might impact the credibility of the results that come from that scientific article.

Once an author finished his or her project or paper, they will ask their peer or people who working closely to the topic they are working on to review it before having it published. The peer will evaluated the paper and provided feedback with credibility.  The benefit for peer review is that people with in the same field could examined and approved the information in the paper, and with the approval of many professional in the same field, it increase the support and verified the information in the paper. However, depend on the paper and the purpose of the paper, peer review could take time and causing the submission on the paper to get push back. Also, if the topic or the purpose of the paper is to challenge some principle knowledge within the field, it could get attack or disapprove by many professional in the same field, or incorrectly feedback on the paper.

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