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Learning to Do Peer Review

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This chapter draws on an analysis of the survey data and follow-up interviews to explore how the reviewers learned to write their reports. The analysis is based on the questionnaire responses and follow-up interviews which asked about the reviewers’ experience in doing peer reviews, how they had learnt to do them, and the issues they faced in doing the reviews. These issues are also considered in relation to the experience of the reviewers and the language background of the reviewers.

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Paltridge, B. (2017). Learning to Do Peer Review. In: The Discourse of Peer Review. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48736-0_6

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