Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it?
Illuminating the confidential process of academic evaluation, this text reveals the inner workings of this secretive, powerful and peculiar world.
Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as ?peer review,? highly respected professors pass judgment, usually confidentially, on the work of...