Writing Exercise #3

In the science community it is common practice to have your scientific writing peer reviewed. What is peer reviewing? Its pretty simple, basically you submit your paper to a publication and that publication requests other scientists to review your document. Then they report back to you and the publication on their edits and thoughts. This is meant to improve your paper.

Peer reviewing is an important part of the scientific writing process. It helps to improve the integrity of published papers and guards against mistakes. There are of course flaws in the system. For instance the writer can request certain people to review their document which can give an advantage. Another example is if someone who knows of you and does not like you, then they may be overly critical of your work. Even scientists can be petty.

Even with these issues the process of peer reviewing is important and is likely to be the industry standard for generations to come.

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