Describe how the author defended or justified their argument (what data, information, ideas, theories, etc.

Journal Critique/Paper 1
Journal Critique Assignment: This assignment is worth 15% of your final grade.
Choose an article from an academic (peer reviewed) journal at the library, or get one though an Internet search engine. Pick an article based on leadership topics such as Power and Political Behavior, Decision Making, Organizational Effectiveness or any other leadership topic.
Your job in the review is to simply describe the thesis and evaluate its persuasiveness.
The review should do two things (A and B) :
Summarize the article in a fair, complete and balanced manner. To do that describe:
What the article tries to argue or what the author is trying to convince you of.
Describe how the author defended or justified their argument (what data, information, ideas, theories, etc. did he/she use)
Describe the conclusions of findings of the article.
NOTE: After reading your summary, I should be able to describe to anyone else what is argued or explained in the article.
Critically Evaluate
Tell me what you think of it.
What are its strengths and weaknesses?
sure to fully explain your statements (i.e. don’t just say the article was creative, explain why you came to that conclusion)
Discuss the implications of the content on the practice of criminal justice.
Paper Format- All papers must follow the format described below:
Papers must be typed and double spaced
Times New Roman Font, Font size : 12 pt
Length: at least three (3) pages

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