Title: Workshop at the PPN Conference, 10/18/19

Description: Announcing! A hands-on, values-driven workshop about PPJ’s signature Formative Peer Review (FPR) process. If you’re attending the PPN Conference in East Lansing, check your email for workshop registration instructions.
Time & Location
1:15-2:45 pm, Friday, October 18 in Red Cedar B in the Kellogg Center, East Lansing, MI
Workshop Description
“Formative Peer Review: Assessing Scholarship with the Public” 
Presenters: · Christopher P. Long, Dean, College of Arts & Letters (cplong@msu.edu) · Bill Hart-Davidson, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters (hartdav2@msu.edu) · Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities (kfitz@msu.edu) · Bethany Laursen, PPJ Editorial Assistant (laursen3@msu.edu) 

This workshop will introduce participants to the Public Philosophy Journal’s Formative Peer Review criteria (relevance, accessibility, intellectual coherence, and scholarly engagement) and explore how the peer review process can help composers and reviewers collaborate to develop the skills needed to engage in public philosophical work. Brief presentations will 1) discuss the necessity of rethinking scholarly writing for public engagement; 2) elucidate the development and core values of the PPJ’s review criteria; 3) demonstrate the review criteria’s instantiation on the PPJ’s publishing platform; and 4) reflect on the value of formative peer review with a look at a recent publication produced using this method of review. 

The second half of the workshop will offer participants the opportunity to 1) assess the value of the PPJ review criteria for evaluating public philosophy; 2) practice approaching a composition from the perspective of a formative reviewer; and 3) review each other’s work, or provided samples, according to these criteria. Participants will come away with concrete solutions for engaging in collaboration with a range of publics as well as a baseline for thinking about best practices in peer review from the standpoint of public philosophy. 

Sneak peek:

Date: 18 October 2019 1:15 pm EDT