Are the study design and methods appropriate for the purposes of the study? Have the procedures been presented in enough detail to enable a reader to duplicate them?
Critique a journal article. This handout will give you a few guidelines to follow as you go. But wait, what kind of a journal article is it: an empirical/research article, or a review of literature? Some of the guidelines offered here will apply to critiques of all kinds of articles, but each type of article […]