Being an effective reviewer

ICA has posted a couple brief articles about reviewing for journals that may help set the stage for our conversation this afternoon.

http://www.icahdq.org/membersnewsletter/JAN14_ART0007.asp
http://icanewsletter.com/2013/12/02/serving-as-a-peer-reviewer-some-dos-of-being-a-constructive-critic/

Great data resource for political communication - TESS (Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences)

TESS (Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences) is a great resource for faculty and graduate students to conduct experimental research with a generalizable population of adults for free. Yes, you read correctly, FOR FREE!

Funded by the National Science Foundation, you can submit brief five page proposals to conduct a study, they are peer-reviewed, and if approved, you can field the study at no cost to you. Great way to replicate experiments with adults, collect a larger data set of respondents with more heterogeneity of traits/individual differences, etc.

You can find more infomation about TESS at http://www.tessexperiments.org and how to submit proposals at http://www.tessexperiments.org./howtosubmit.html

In addition, TESS has a special competition for young investigators - i.e. graduate students - that is meant to allow graduate students to field large scale studies. You can find more information at http://www.tessexperiments.org/yic.html.

If you have a any questions about TESS, please feel free to email me as I am an Associate PI for the program and reviewer of proposals at nisbet.5@osu.edu.

New Library website

Graham Walden, the Communication Librarian, has created an OSU Library web page dedicated to survey research.  The page includes many of the resources that we discussed in COPS a couple years ago.  You can find it here:

http://library.osu.edu/find/subjects/survey-research/

What makes a good review

There's a great post on orgtheory.net that is relevant to our topic today. Titled "the editors speak: what makes a good review", the post includes observations, recommendations, and wish lists from 11 past and current editors of major journals, including the American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and others. Although neither communication nor political science journals are represented, most of the advice offered transcend disciplinary boundaries. I highly recommend reading it.

http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/the-editors-speak-what-makes-a-good-review/