For this assignment, you have to undertake a review of one journal article on any topic related to the course. As an advice, let you use ‘Google Scholar’ to get recent (not older than 5 years) and relevant journal articles.
In general terms, a review analyses, comments on and evaluates the work. As a course assignment, it situates the work in the light of specific issues and theoretical concerns being discussed in the course. Your review should show that you can recognize arguments and engage in critical thinking about the course content.
Outline of your Article Review
1. Full Bibliographic Reference
State the full bibliographic reference for the article you are reviewing (authors, title, journal name, volume, issue, year, page numbers, etc.) Important: this is not the bibliography listed at the end of the article, rather the citation of the article itself!
2. Introduction: Objectives, Article Domain, Audience, Journal and
Conceptual/Empirical
Classification
Paragraph 1: State the objectives (goals or purpose) of the article. What is the article's domain (topic area)? Paragraph 2: State whether the article is "conceptual" or "empirical", and why you believe it is conceptual or empirical. Empirical articles and conceptual articles have a similar objective: to substantiate an argument proposed by the author. (Read further about these two types of articles).
3. Brief Summary
For an article review, do not spend much space summarizing the article. Instead focus on analysis of the article.
Thus, in this section, summarize the article only very briefly.
Paragraph 1: what is the problem or opportunity being addressed
Paragraph 2: which solution is proposed (the solution could be a new model or a theory that explains the problem) Paragraph 3: what evidence is put forth that this solution is appropriate (If this is an empirical article, be sure to briefly describe what kind of empirical study was done as part of the evidence)
4. Results
Very briefly summarize the important points (observations, conclusions, findings) in the article. Please do not repeat lists of items in the articles - just summarize the essence of these if you feel they are necessary to include.
5. Contributions
An article makes a "contribution" by adding to the knowledge of researchers in a research
field. An article can make a contribution to the research field in many ways. Does it provide a new way to look at a problem? Does it bring together or "synthesize" several concepts (or frameworks, models, etc.) together in an insightful way that has not been done before? Does it provide new solutions? Does it provide new results? Does it identify new issues? Does it provide a comprehensive survey or review of a domain? Does it provide new insights?
6. Foundation
Good research often is built upon theories and frameworks that other researchers have developed. Sometimes articles will be substantially based upon this prior work, and refer back to it in some detail. (Not all research articles will do this.) In other terms, let you point out the theoretical foundations of the article you review. But, if the article does not build upon key pieces of prior research, then write in your review "This article does not build upon any foundation research." (If you do not state this explicitly, you will not receive credit for this section.)
7. General Critique
In this section, you should state your opinions of how well (or poorly) the author did their research and presented the research results in the article. Your critique can contain both positive and negative comments. Justify and explain in detail each of your critique points in a separate paragraph of at least 4-5 sentences.
8. Issues
a. (Listed by the author)
What open questions or issues has the author stated remain unresolved? Discuss each in a separate paragraph of 5-10 sentences. Each issue's paragraph should take the following format:
What is the issue?
Why do you believe this is an important issue? In what way is it unresolved? Suggestions for resolving it - if you give your own suggestions (instead of or in addition to the authors', then precede each with "I would propose ..." If it has been resolved since the article was written, then state how it was resolved.
b. (Listed in your opinion)
List several open questions or issues which remain unresolved in your opinion? For example, what possible future research questions could arise from this article? Discuss each in a separate paragraph of 5-10 sentences. Each issue's paragraph should take the following format:
What is the issue? Why do you believe this is an important issue? in what way is it unresolved , and suggestions for resolving it
Formatting and deadline:
Submission date: 25 DAYS
Formatting: Times New Roman with 12 Font size & 1.5 line spacing Referencing style: APA There is no any excuse for late submissions!
