Introduction

You are currently in the module on "Peer Review: Journal Articles" in a larger tutorial. Each research tutorial includes modules of topics related to the overall tutorial learning objectives. Please go through all the pages in this module by clicking on the “Next” button on the bottom of the page in order to progress. If you would like to track your progress, be sure to log in with your UNCG credentials at the top right of the module. Each module includes Quick Checks on every page. These Quick Checks do not produce a certificate; they are optional and do not track your progress. Certificates are created by completing a whole tutorial, so be sure to complete all the modules within a tutorial in order to generate a certificate. You can also take a screenshot of your progress page. 

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Time needed to complete this module: 10 minutes

If you've ever had an assignment that required you to use peer-reviewed articles, you might have wondered what they are and why your instuctors and librarians seem to love them so much. Finding peer-reviewed sources is about more than just checking a box in a library database to fulfill your assignment requirements, and in this lesson we'll talk about this category of sources in more depth so that you can feel confident when searching for them. 

Learning Objectives

By the time you complete this lesson, you should be able to:

• identify the characteristics of peer-reviewed articles
• describe the basic peer-review process for many scholarly journals
• identify some scenarios in which peer-reviewed articles are the most appropriate sources to use

Please watch a short video from North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries that does a great job explaining the basics of peer-reviewed journal articles. 

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