peer review tagged posts

November 24, 2013 / Posted in  Critical Thinking, Critical Writing, Education, Ethics, Intellectual Property rights, Interpretation, Investigation, Language, Perú, Research, Third World nations

Index

•     I. Introduction
•    II. Antithesis
•   III. Testing the thesis
•   IV. Investigation and research
•    V. Thesis
•   VI. Addressing the problem of Tradumatica
•  VII. Direction and focus
• VIII. Summary
•   IX. Recommendations
•    X. Bibliography
•   XI. Web links annotated
•  XII. End Notes

I.  Introduction

I was reading a student essay in the eighth cycle at a university in Perú where I have taught for several disappointing and discouraging years.  To my dismay, after having the son of an evangelical minister complain when I failed his paper that was 100% plagiarized, his lamentation equaling that of the other student. Both young people attempted to justify the theft of intellectual property by stating that he had been taught that in the local schools...

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August 11, 2013 / Posted in  Education, Ethics, Intellectual Property rights, Investigation, Researcn

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Background

III. Antithesis

IV. Antethesis

V. Protothesis

VI. Synthesis

VII. Reiteration of Rubric: Reality of Academic Writing

VIII. Peer Review

IX. Adversarial Reviews

X. Meeting the challenge in mastering the English language

XI. Academic Writing Requirements

XII. Summary

XIII. Recommendations

XIV. Bibliography

XV. Footnotes

Introduction

In academia, investigation, research (research is frequently confused with investigation, although in Academic English they mean different aspects in the conduct of inquiry), writing, rewriting, editing, redacting, and publishing is conducted in several sets of forms and genres, not all that are geared, directed, responsive to or a part of the author’s field of specialization to the lamentable loss of true scholarship...

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June 2, 2011 / Posted in  Education, Fujimori (Keiko), GOP, History & Science Standards, Iowa, Perú, Third World nations

Education has become essential--to get a job--but learning a subject or gaining knowledge is of little interest to most people--because of bad teachers, bad books, and lazy students. Here is how to correct the problems.Read More