“Dear Author": A Transparent SoTL Peer Review

Abstract

This epistolary article is written as an extended SoTL peer review. It contains two sections: my preparatory work as peer reviewer and my actual review. In the first section, I remind myself of the function and processes of the SoTL peer review, what the author expects from a SoTL peer reviewer, and how I see my role as a peer reviewer in SoTL. In the second section, I write my review, focusing on three common feedback areas in SoTL: how the author brings in existing scholarship, how the author describes their SoTL project, and how the author demonstrates its importance. My review concludes with some advice for navigating the potentially conflicting reviews that are not unusual in SoTL.