{"id":5354,"date":"2008-01-02T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T08:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2008-01-02T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T08:03:41","slug":"both-sides-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5354","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;both sides now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister, Caroline Levine, has an <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/views\/2007\/12\/07\/levine\">essay <\/a>in Inside Higher Education about the responsibilities of peer reviewers to the authors they evaluate. She begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was a struggling junior faculty member, every publication mattered so much that rejection letters felt like physical blows. And it wasn&#8217;t only the brute fact of the rejections that caused pain: Readers&#8217; reports on my manuscripts were often written in a tone of sharp annoyance. Touchy and ill-tempered, they seemed to see only the flaws. It was as if I&#8217;d somehow insulted these readers, breaking rules that I didn\u2019t know existed. There\u2019s no question that I\u2019ve had much to learn about framing, pursuing, and clinching an argument. But I&#8217;ve certainly never had any intention of irritating my readers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Caroline doesn&#8217;t argue that reviewers should be lenient or nice to would-be authors, but she makes the case for an ethic of respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister, Caroline Levine, has an essay in Inside Higher Education about the responsibilities of peer reviewers to the authors they evaluate. She begins: When I was a struggling junior faculty member, every publication mattered so much that rejection letters felt like physical blows. And it wasn&#8217;t only the brute fact of the rejections that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}