For this assignment, you will play the part of a reviewer for a journal and provide an in-depth review of a scientific article. The article may cover any scientific topic of your choosing. You article must be:
Peer-reviewed
An original research article (NO review articles)
From a reputable scientific journal
Published within the last five years
Your review document must include:
Your name
Your article’s citation (APA format)
Provide your article’s citation at the top of the document. All other citations should go at the end.
A 350-500-word summary of the article. Include details on all sections of the article, including: brief background, thesis statement/goal of the work, description of methods used and data collected, results, discussion, and conclusions.
An in-depth evaluation of the article. There is no word limit here – you will be graded on thoroughness of your discussion. See the bottom of this entry for a list of information that should be included in the evaluation.
**The evaluation must be clearly organized and use transitional phrases when changing topics.
***In order to make a good grade on the review, you will have to consult at least some of the literature cited in your article. (Be sure to use APA format and in-text citations, where applicable.)
I will add a grading rubric to the assignment later this week. Spelling, grammar, and syntax will count for 30% of the final assignment grade.
The scholarly review is due by 11:59 pm on FRI 02/04. Upload your assignment as a Word document or a pdf. Submission of any other file type will not be accepted.
The evaluation must address the following topics, at a minimum:
Purpose and Argument
How well is the purpose made clear in the introduction through background/context and thesis statement(s)?
How well does the abstract represent and summarize the article’s major points and argument?
How well does the objective of the experiment/study fill a need for the field?
How well is the argument/purpose articulated and discussed throughout the body of the text?
How well does the discussion maintain cohesion?
Presentation/Organization of Information
How appropriate and clear is the title of the article? How could it be changed to better prepare the reader for its contents?
Where could the author have benefited from expanding, condensing, or omitting ideas?
How clear are the author’s statements? Challenge ambiguous statements.
What underlying assumptions does the author have, and how does this affect the credibility or clarity of their article?
How objective is the author in their discussion of the topic?
How well does the organization fit the article’s purpose and articulate key goals?
Methods
How appropriate are the study design and methods for the purposes of the study?
How detailed are the methods being described? Is the author leaving out important steps or considerations?
Have the procedures been presented in enough detail to enable the reader to duplicate them?
Data
Scan and spot-check any calculations. Are the statistical methods appropriate?
Do you find any content repeated or duplicated?
How many errors of fact and interpretation does the author include? (You can check on this by looking up the references the author cites.)
What pertinent literature has the author cited, and have they used this literature appropriately?
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