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2 Welcome to Turnitin.com’s Peer Review! This introductory tour will take you through our Peer Review system and explain the steps you need to get started. Peer Review allows you to anonymously read and review the papers from other students in your class. With Peer Review, you will be able to receive feedback on your papers from your instructor and classmates, based on criteria chosen by your instructor. The pages that follow should give you a good idea what to expect when you start using Peer Review as a student. For faculty instructions, please refer to the faculty version of our Peer Review tour.

3 What’s a Peer Review? To the left is an example of the end product of the peer review process: a finished review. You will likely receive one or more reviews like this for every peer review assignment your class completes. The top section consists of a series of questions rated on a scale of 0 to 5, called rubric questions. The second section consists of topic questions, which must be answered in essay form. These questions typically ask you to evaluate a paper (or papers) written by one of your classmates based on questions chosen by your instructor. The number, length, and difficulty of these questions are completely customizable and determined by your instructor based on the current level of you class.

4 Peer Review Form This is an example of the form used to post a review like the one shown on the previous page. For this particular review, the instructor has chosen one topic and one rubric question. Additionally, section “B” allows you to enter short, descriptive phrases about a paper you a reviewing, which helps us create quick reference points about a given review when many reviews are displayed next to each other in list form.

5 Peer Review Overview When your instructor creates a peer review assignment, he or she selects a given set of papers for your class to review (for example, “papers from assignment 7.”). Then, your instructor decides how many papers each student will get to review. By reading the text above the papers for review, we can see that, for this assignment, each student must review 2 papers. The first paper has been assigned; it is at the top and highlighted in blue. The second paper, however, can be chosen from the remaining papers. Writing a review is as easy as clicking on the pencil icon under the “post review” column.When you have written the assigned number of reviews for any given assignment, the pencil icons will disappear.

6 This example shows the same page as before, except that now a review has been posted for the paper “Independence or Interdependence”, as indicated by the “edit” icon where the pencil used to be. You may edit any given review until the due date for the peer review assignment has passed. According to the text above the papers, however, there is still one review left to complete for this assignment. If no additional papers have been assigned to you for review (as indicated by the blue highlight on the previous page) you may select a paper to review from the remaining papers.

7 This page shows the peer review screen after all reviews for a given assignment have been completed. The status box states that “ALL reviews” have been completed since two reviews were assigned. Note that each time a student completes a review, it moves to the top of the list. Also notice that once the assigned number of reviews have been completed, the pencil icons disappear from the “post review” column. From this point until the due date, you may only edit your reviews. You may not post more total reviews than those assigned by your instructor.

8 The final stage of the peer review process occurs after the post date– the date, specified by your instructor, when all the reviews written by your class are made available for you to read. Clicking on the icon in the “read” column will take you to another page that displays all the reviews posted for a given paper. The “reviews” column to the right indicates the total number of reviews submitted; the “avg” column tells you the average score, based on selected rubrics, that paper received, and the final column indicates the grade assigned to the paper by your instructor. Note: Your instructor may elect to turn the grading option off, or not grade papers through Peer Review. If this is the case, the grade column will not appear.

9 When you click on the “read reviews” icon for any paper on the previous page, you will come to a screen that resembles the one to the left. The rubric averages section displays the average score for each rubric question. The total average score for all combined rubrics is also displayed at the bottom, in white. The reviews section shows a list of the all the reviews submitted for a given paper. If your instructor has submitted his or her own review, it will be at the top and highlighted in blue. The remaining student reviews are listed below. You can read the contents of any review by clicking the peer review icon in the “full review” column.

10 This is a copy of the actual review for the paper “The History of Interdependence Day.” The top section shows the rubric results given this paper by the reviewing student. Beneath the list of rubric questions is the average score for all the rubrics. The second section shows the essay responses for the specified topic questions. Responses will often refer to specific passages in the reviewed paper; if you want to read the paper at the same time you are reading the review, you can click on the paper’s title at the top at any review to open a new window containing the text of the paper.

11 Now that we have seen how Peer Review works, we can take a look at how it integrates into the rest of Turnitin.com. Your class portfolio page will now not only show the results of papers you have submitted for plagiarism screening, but also list reviews you have submitted for a given class. Additionally, you will be able to access any reviews written by other members of your class for your papers. In the example to the left, 3 reviews have been written for the paper “Oh, Interdependence Day.” Clicking on read in the “reviews” column opens a page displaying all the current reviews for this paper.

12 Thanks for taking the time to learn the basics of Peer Review. The goal of this presentation was to help you get up and running quickly; there are many advanced functions not touched upon here that are explained in greater depth online and in our user manuals. If you experience any difficulties with Peer Review and can’t find the answers here or at our website, our helpdesk (helpdesk@turnitin.com) is available 24 hours to help you with any problems.helpdesk@turnitin.com Again, thanks for supporting us in the ongoing fight against digital plagiarism. Good luck!


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