Article Review

Someone from this class asked about article review...

Here are some tips...

• Dr. Kim has posted an example of article review on portico which you can refer to
• Make sure you include all the headings that are on the example. You can choose to copy the headings from the example (with exact wording, we won't count it as plagiarism). Of course, you're welcome to paraphrase them if you find some better ways to say them.
• Make sure you are following the APA Style Manual in terms of citation and writing style because you will get points off if you did not follow it. For example, never start a sentence with a number (eg. 50), but spell it out (Fifty). Also, make sure you have 1 inch for all margins. You can find APA Style Manual in the Hubbard Library or Integration Library (on reserve) if you don't own one. Here is a helpful website on APA style: http://www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm
• For any information that the authors should have included in certain sections of the article, make sure you point it out under the section "Flaws of Study and Limitations to Generalizability". For population, you have to include number of participants, gender, enthicity, and age. For example, if the researchers forgot to include the age of participants, make sure you report it.
• Try your best to keep your article review in a page, it's okay if you really need to go over a page
  
• Make sure you will use quotation marks and include page number(s) if you are quoting something from the article; otherwise, paraphrase everything else.
  
• Some of you might have learn to put 2 spaces after a period, there is only 1 space between a period and the beginning of a sentence.
• This homework is help you to build up your literature review if you have decided what you want to do for your master/dissertation. If you don't have an area of interest, no worries, you can take this opportunity to explore your interests. So, try to stick with what you are really interested in and demonstrate it under "Relevance for the Current Question"
  
• In the "reference" section, make sure where to put a space, some periods after authors' initials are followed by a space, some are not. Also, know when to capitalize and when not to, especially for the title of the article.
  
• You don't need a cover/title page for this homework, use the same layout in the example
• Under "Major Findings" section, you do not need to report descriptive or inferential statistics, rather, you just need to report what kind of test analyzes the researchers used and summarize the findings.
• If you are doing the article review on a qualitative study, follow the headings that are listed on the second page of the example article review posted on portico.

I hope this helps! Post questions on this blog or email us questions if you have any.