As part of your grade (20% total; 10% for each review), each student provide 2 anonymous peer-reviews of their colleagues’ papers. A template to use for your review is below.

Advice on reviewing scientific papers

If you are looking for some guidance on writing reviews of scientific papers, here are some links to various columns, blogs, etc, about reviewing scientific papers:

Arthropod Ecology

Violent metaphors (don’t let the name scare you)

Duke Writing Lab

Examples of good reviews from Peerage

Review Guidelines

Final papers will be peer-reviewed and reviewed by instructors based on the following criteria. Please read before you submit your final paper.

Example of a manuscript review for Fish 507.docx

Review templates: MS Word or R Markdown