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The Importance of Article Reviews

1. Introduction

This is an important point because the quality of the review can affect the article’s influence. Editors often reject reviews that are not weighted towards the findings in the article being reviewed. Consequently, the article may potentially go unexamined by the academic community and its findings will not be disseminated. The review can be a factor in an article’s inclusiveness in a research project at a later date. For example, it is not uncommon for a librarian to run a search on a topic and only retrieve a single article. Therefore, the research may be superficial as it is unlikely the librarian will ever know if other relevant research of equal quality was ever published on the topic. This can impact a wide range of people from students interested in the topic to researchers conducting a systematic review.

It is important that students understand that an article review is not just a summary. A review is a careful, critical evaluation of the article’s strengths, weaknesses, and implications. Writing an article review implies an attempt to reveal the authors’ own interpretation or reaction to what he/she read. An article may be about a current or past science discovery, a news event, or it may reflect the author’s own interpretation of a particular problem or issue. Article reviews are common assignments that are aimed to develop analytical and critical reading of scholars.

2. Overview of the Article

The research delves into the issue of demographic differences, specifically the position of generation on policy issues. The article takes a direct approach in finding the effect generation has on public opinion of policy issues and goes to great lengths to minimize the influences of outside variables on the tested relationship between generation and issue opinion. The study focused on five issue areas: environmental policy, social welfare policy, defense spending, abortion policy, and civil liberties. While there is a large amount of information in the article about each of the five policy issues, this review will only address environmental policy in depth. Although the issue of abortion policy elicited some interesting connections between generational intellectualism and issue opinion, the abortion policy was often viewed differently by different generations due to different core values and thus did not illustrate generation’s effect on issue opinion. Because the environment issue is a common issue concerning the welfare of future generations, it was expected to closely relate to the concerns of Baby Boomer and Echo generations. The examined data showed that the environment issue did, in fact, fit the hypothesis, but due to space constraints, many interesting aspects of the study’s findings on environmental policy will not be addressed in this review.

3. Critical Analysis of the Article

The criteria of this step are clarity, conciseness, and relevance. The author must define the topic and summarize the article in the introduction, without going off track or including too much unnecessary information. The language and concepts used must be easily understandable to anyone and must not be confusing. During this step, consider reading the introduction more than once, noting the general concepts, issues, and problems to construct a conceptual map. This will help map the concepts and build a better understanding.

In the introduction, in the scientific article review, the author first defines the topic generally. The topic may be the location of the monument, the artist who constructed the sculptures, the type of sculpture, the basic theme of the work, the period of time in which it was constructed, and the material used. All of these factors need to be considered. The main idea of the article is always stated in the introduction. When the author defines the location of the sculptures in the public park near Cape Town in the company of older white men, he also mentions that he engaged with these statues with his black friends. This represents that the author was trying to ‘make sense’ of these statues within contemporary South Africa and trying to rationalize its personal significance to him.

4. Conclusion

Think critically about the article. What were the article’s strengths and weaknesses? Perhaps the article was effective in generating new ideas or was a good read relevant to the topic. Maybe the article was not clear in its findings or the author presented a biased opinion. It is important to be able to express what you liked/didn’t like about the article and to be able to prove why using evidence. This is the basis of the review. With an understanding of the article and article review, the reader should be able to create a general idea of the article and vice versa. You may wish to discuss the article’s effective points and whether or not the author gets across what he/she is trying to say. You will then be able to elaborate whether the article was clear in its findings and whether it provided solid evidence to support the theory. By writing down how the article has affected you whether it is by understanding where the author was coming from, relating the article to your own experiences, or learning a new idea, it is recommended to summarize these thoughts. This will help you to write about your overall impression of the article be it good or bad.

5. Recommendations for Further Research

Article reviews usually answer the questions of whether or not the piece includes a clear introduction and summary, if the method and evidence provided answer the questions it raises, if the results answer the original questions, if there is an analytical discussion of the results, and finally if the conclusion restates the thesis and the results and provides suggestions for the future. Then, following such specific criteria, it offers constructive criticism of the article, identifying the positive aspects of the article, pointing out the article’s problems, and giving recommendations for the improvement of the article identified by the problems noted. Then, it is summarized by the reviewers the value of the article, how it adds to the body of knowledge. Further research to expand on the ideas and results of the article can be predicted on the importance and interest to the article. If the article is of high value and it has generated a lot of interest, multiple researches on similar topics can be conducted and the results compared to further the original ideas of the article. If the article provides evidence for new ideas, it can spark changes in practices and policies, opening new ways to test new methods and ideas. Then, research can be predictive on the criticism the article received. Any problems noted by the reviewer can be answered and improved by new research on the same topic using a method that was pointed out as a problem. Finally, the value of the research can provide input and feedback to the original article.