ACR302 Criminology Research 2022

ACR302 - CRIMINOLOGY
RESEARCH
Literature Peer Review / Reflection

Umashankar Sivapathasubramaniam 217169741
For conducting a peer review of my team members and a review of my own
literature review, I have taken the support of secondary data collection method
for collecting all the relevant information pertaining to the topic of my research
paper and both of my team members. Reviewing the literature of my other two
allocated team members was a great opportunity to experience the way of
reviewing a literature of other people as a reader or marker and get a feedback
of my own literature along with sharing my feedback to the team. However, we
as a group discussed and exchange our work through email and provided
feedback within four days. We did not have any issues while exchanging our
research work via email; however, we had certain concerns regarding sharing
our literature review before the due date. I spent a few hours to review each
team member’s literature, for I had to understand the task along with the
marking criteria in order to provide feedback based on their respective topics.
As a reviewer of the literature review of my team members’ research works, I
considered some of the criteria while reviewing. For instance, I considered
whether the research paper was clearly written and whether it followed the
criteria of literature review, along with the fact that whether it framed a good
research question for the proposal. I clearly identified that my team members
had provided sufficient information in their literature review.
I did not understand the details of the literatures of my team members
completely as soon as I finished reading them; it took me some time to grasp it
and reach its depth. At this point I found their research work quite interesting,
which made me realise that peer reviewing my teammate’s work would made
me improve in my work as well. I believe I have provided effective feedback to
my team members pertaining to their research work along with the certain
changes that they would be required to revise. I think peer review would help
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