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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
([email protected]) is
available 24 hours to help you
with any problems.
Again, thanks for supporting us
in the ongoing fight against
digital plagiarism. Good luck!