PEER REVIEW 2
This paper is an evaluation of the personal research on prosthetics by Kelly Elliot.
Preliminary, the research was well conducted, it is indicative of how well the student (Kelly
Elliot) journeyed through the research process, gaining knowledge all through from the very
beginning to the end. She begins by defining the term prosthetics, elaborates her prior knowledge
about that field and gradually develops her research indicating her discoveries on the types of
prosthetics and how they are designed, attached and regulated. She also includes several tenets
related to the same field and concludes with an affirmed desire to research and learn more.
Kelly defines in clear stages the steps she undertook during her research; she begins by
consolidating information about prosthetics that she independently knew prior. Then collected
more data on the same topic through the library and Internet amidst other sources. She further
corroborated that data by visiting actual hospitals and medical centers that dealt with prosthetics,
and in that way authenticated her findings.
She is indeed clear on the limited knowledge about her topic before conducting her
research; this is evidenced in the way she introduces the issue and identifies it as a field that is
dear to her. Moreover, her prior knowledge scope appears vast, since in her research she provides
information about prosthetics that is quite intricate, the knowledge that could only have been
well attained through conscious efforts.
Kelly further presents in clear details her findings during the research process. She details
how she learned about the various types of prosthetics, their methods of production and how they
are neurologically incorporated into the motor and sensory cortexes of the body. She further
presents, even more, details on the history of prosthetics as from 300 BC and how they have
developed up to the current technologically modified prosthetics.