Description
Summary of the article: 1.5 pages minimum, but no more than 3 pages
Anarticle critique should briefly summarize, in your own words, the article research question
and how it was addressed in the article.
.Critique of the study: 1.5 pages minimum (but please no more than 3 pages
• This portion of the article critique assignment focuses on your own thoughts about
the content of the article (i.e. your own ideas in your own words). For this section,
please use the word “Critique” below the last sentence in your summary, and have
the word “Critique” flush left.
• There are a number of ways to demonstrate critical thinking in your writing.
Address at least four of the following elements:
• 1). In your opinion, how valid and reliable is the study? Why? (make sure to
define what reliable and valid mean)
• 2). Did the study authors correctly interpret their findings, or are there any
alternative interpretations you can think of?
• 3). Did the authors of the study employ appropriate ethical safeguards?
• 4). Briefly describe a follow-up study you might design that builds on the findings
of the study you read how the research presented in the article relates to research,
articles or material covered in other sections of the course
• 5). Describe whether you feel the results presented in the article are weaker or
stronger than the authors claim (and why); or discuss alternative interpretations of
the results (i.e. something not mentioned by the authors) and/or what research
might provide a test between the proposed and alternate interpretations
• 6). Mention additional implications of the findings not mentioned in the article
(either theoretical or practical/applied)
• 7). Identify specific problems in the theory, discussion or empirical research
presented in the article and how these problems could be corrected. If the
problems you discuss are methodological in nature, then they must be issues that
are substantial enough to affect the interpretations of the findings or arguments
presented in the article. Furthermore, for methodological problems, you must
justify not only why something is problematic but also how it could be resolved
and why your proposed solution would be preferable.
• 8). Describe how/why the method used in the article is either better or worse for
addressing a particular issue than other methods