Fatherhood

Critical Analysis Guide: What to Know?
• It should be 3-4 pages, double-spaced. It is worth 15% for each paper
• Choose one of the assigned Peer Reviewed Articles.
• Exercise to be based on questions, which uncover and make clear the foundations for our thinking and activities, such as fundamental views, interests, ideologies, and assumptions.
• In your critical analysis attempt to discover the relationship between research and /or written statements and broader social structures/processes or identities, such as gender, race, class, ideology, patriarchy, power, and male dominance.
• Critical analysis relates immediate phenomena to larger social interests
Emphasis in Critical Analysis
• Expose taken-for-granted assumptions and problems attached to these assumptions
• Expose ideologies, roles, and institutional influences on thinking and behaviour
• Discover whose interests are being served in the pursuit of certain thinking or behaviour
• Understand what interests’ different groups have in the outcome of research and writing
• Discover what knowledge is selected for use and what knowledge is neglected
Note
• A critique of a reading is not just expected to summarize the reading. Rather, it interprets and evaluate the text
• Summarizing an article or reading answers the question “what”, a critique answers the “how?” “Why?” and “how well?”
Questions to Consider as you read the readings/article (s) you plan to critique
• What is the author’s thesis or purpose?
• What is the author’s underlying assumptions or biases?
• What argument does the author use to support the thesis?
• What are the author’s main conclusions?
• What evidence does the author use? Is this evidence accurate, complete, and fair?
• Are the author’s methods and/or interpretation valid?
• Does the article/book contribute to an improved understanding of the subjects?
• Do you think the author succeeds in what she or he sets out to do?
Conclusion
• Draw a conclusion by your judgment of how well the author attained the purpose or thesis that was set out at the onset of the article/reading.

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