Terry Elliott's List: 1.e300 critiques

• select an appropriate journal article
• find a topic that interests you
• fits your current level of knowledge
• select articles that are current
• ritique will cover five areas, after you have read the article thoroughly:  thesis, methods, evidence of thesis support, contribution to the literature, recommendations.
• (1) Clearly state the thesis.  (2) Under methods, answer the following questions.  "What methods did the author use to investigate the topic?  Were the appropriate methods used?  Did the author's approach to supporting the thesis make sense?  Did the author employ the methods correctly?  Did you discover any errors in the way the research was conducted?"  (3)  Evidence of Thesis Support:  "What evidence did the author present in support of the thesis?  What are the strengths of the evidence?  What are the weaknesses?  How did the author support the thesis?"  (4)  Contribution to the literature:  "Conduct your own research and include at least five other authors on the subject.  Evaluate the contribution that your selected article makes to a better understanding of the subject."  (5) Recommendation:  "Summarize your evaluation of the article.  Who will benefit from reading this article?  What will the benefit be?  How important and extensive is that benefit?  Clearly state your evaluation of the article in the form of a thesis for your own critique."
• paper format

5 more annotations...

• • What problem does this paper solve, and what are the strengths and limitations of its approach?
   
  • Is the evaluation fair? Does it achieve it support the stated goals of the paper?
   
  • Does the method described seem mature enough to use in real applications? Why or why not? What applications seem particularly amenable to this approach?
   
  • What good ideas does the problem formulation, the solution, the approach or the research method contain that could be applied elsewhere?
   
  • What would be good follow-on projects and why?
   
  • Are the paper's underlying assumptions valid?
   
  • Which important issues in the field does this paper illuminate and how?
   
  • Did the paper provide a clear enough and detailed enough description of the proposed methods for you to be able to implement them? If not, where is additional clarification or detail needed?

  • Good questions for critical analysis of paper,

• www.novitasroyal.org/marko.pdf