Peer review: Objective screening or wishful thinking?

Hyland, Ken (2020) Peer review: Objective screening or wishful thinking? Journal of English for Research and Publication Purposes, 1 (1). pp. 51-65. ISSN 2590-0994

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Abstract

Despite the massive changes in academic publishing in recent years, one thing remains more or less constant: the disdain many academics feel for peer review, and perhaps for peer reviewers themselves. This is possibly the most contentious and secretive practice in our academic lives, reviled and tolerated in equal measure but rarely loved. Slow, biased, contradictory, hurtful or wilfully obtuse, reviewers come in for a lot of stick. But are the criticisms levelled at peer review merited or is it an effective means of separating the sweet from the sour? Here I argue that while there is a lot wrong with peer review, it serves an important function for the academic community and that ERPP teachers have a role to play in making it work.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: peer review,academic writing,linguistics and language ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3310
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Language in Education
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2020 00:44
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2023 01:04
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74722
DOI: 10.1075/jerpp.19010.hyl

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