Criteria for Your Review

Please consider the following as you prepare your review:

• Significance: Does the author effectively establish the significance of the manuscript by providing a new interpretation of the topic, examining new evidence, or advancing a new theoretical perspective?
• Analysis: Does the author critically analyze and reassess existing scholarship based on recent findings, new methodologies, new theories, or original questions?
• Evidence: Is the research sufficiently grounded in primary as well as secondary sources?
• Clarity: Is the manuscript logically organized and well written?

Organizing Your Review

Please organize your comments into the following categories:

• Overall Impression: How should the author interpret your comments? What is the overall tone and tenor of your feedback?
• Major Revisions: What are the most serious shortcomings of the manuscript? Are there significant problems in the framing of the project, the analysis, or the evidentiary base? Are there elements of the manuscript that need overhaul?
• Minor Revisions: What are the most important changes that the author should make to the manuscript during the revision process? Are there aspects of the work that presently make it incomplete, inaccurate, or unclear?
• Errors: What factual or syntactical mistakes need to be addressed before the author submits a final version of the manuscript? (The manuscript will be professionally copy-edited, so spelling and grammatical errors can be ignored.)

Confidentiality

You are asked to treat any manuscripts received for review as confidential documents, and neither the argument nor the evidence should be disclosed without the author's permission. Please discard the manuscript when you have completed your review.

Conflict of Interest Statement

If you have any potential competing interests in relation to this manuscript please outline them when submitting your review, or please write "None." Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on your review. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual, or personal relationships or situations.

Professional Language

HEQ does not edit reviews. In cases where the review includes hostile or unprofessional language, we will invite the reviewer to revise the comments in question.

Thank you for your service as a reviewer; your expertise is invaluable in the production of high-quality manuscripts. If you would like to add this peer-review service to your record, we recommend the use of Publons. For more information on that service, visit publons.com.

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