Scholarly Journal Article Review
Journal article review is an important componen
Scholarly Journal Article Review
Journal article review is an important component of any research project. Therefore, journal article review assignment should be viewed as an opportunity to develop and strengthen analytical writing skills. This is a 3-4-page (excluding the title and references pages) writing assignment that reports on the findings of an empirical study published in a scholarly journal with a publication date no more than five (5) years before the beginning of the current semester (i.e. not more than five years old). The purpose of this exercise is to expose and prepare students to the process of final research project.
Your report must address the following questions within the specified sections:
The first section of the paper should be a summary of the article to answer the following questions:
What is the key research problem identified in the study?
What is the author(s) justification for conducting the study?
What is the purpose of the study?
Is this a quantitative, qualitative study or a mixed study?
What is (are) the research question(s), objective(s) or hypotheses?
What is the target population that the authors wanted to study (i.e., target population)?
What data collection method(s) did the researcher(s) use?
How were the data analyzed?
The second section of the paper should answer the following questions:
What are the major results/findings of the study?
How do these results answer the original research question(s)?
What conclusions did the author(s) reach?
What did the researchers report as the implications of the study?
The third section of the paper should answer the following questions:
What is the significance of the findings for your area of interest?
If you were to conduct this study what would change and keep? Why?
You must support your analysis with at least five (5) scholarly references. Make sure that these references are not used as required or recommended readings in this course.
