article review example pdf

article review example pdf

The Importance of Article Reviews in Academic Research

1. Introduction

A good article review in academic research will have this evaluation of the article at its core. This is the most important part of the review and should summarize your overall findings in a concise and clear manner. It may be helpful to assess the strengths and weaknesses of an article by using a checklist. This can be a series of questions that you consider while reading the article and will help to determine whether your findings are correct. An example of a checklist for an academic article is found on p.169 of Wood (2003). In addition to this, it is important to provide suggestions as to how the article can be improved. This should be delivered in a helpful and beneficial manner and not simply as a criticism of the article overall.

If you have been asked to write an article review in academic research, you will have to engage in a thorough and rigorous reading and analysis of your article. This will involve making notes on the article, and also reading between the lines and evaluating what is said. You may find it helpful to go through the article and make detailed notes at different stages, although this is a time-consuming process. Through this approach, you may be able to identify the weak points of the article and therefore evaluate its content more effectively.

Article Reviews in Academic Research

2. Benefits of Article Reviews

When a student sits down to write a research paper, it is probably not one of the happiest moments of their academic lives. It can be difficult, grueling work, and if the paper is not assigned in advance of the due date, it can be a task that is put off until the last minute, which of course adds to the stress involved. Fortunately, this is now changing as some companies have recognized the problem and are stepping in to offer their services to students and most importantly, in the review writing stage of the research. As part of a research paper, it is important for the student to write a review. Since we understand how grueling and challenging writing a research paper can be, it is highly suggested that students get more information regarding review writing and attempt to compare what they have learned from the paper with the information on the review, making sure the teacher offers extra credit motivation to do so. Although it is said that practice makes perfect, in the case of student research, perfect practice will always be better. Once a student feels that they have written all that they could possibly write on the research paper, a paper writing service can still be helpful. In some cases where the student is simply overwhelmed, or where the research paper has been a broad learning experience, a paper writing service can take the ideas written on the paper and turn them into a very well written and informative article. This of course is very beneficial to the student as it will allow them to learn by comparing their original paper to the new article version, and if the article is written on a topic which was a learning experience, the student will now have a better understanding of the topic. Now it is apparent that hiring someone to write an article may be a bit too much for some students and we do not promote this, however it always remains an option. An alternate idea for students would be to swap papers with someone of equal education and comprehensive level, and each take turns writing articles for the other person’s research.

3. How to Write an Effective Article Review

If you’ve studied any statistics, you should be familiar with the concept of validity and reliability. This step is to evaluate the validity and reliability of the research the article is based on. Essentially, is the conclusion that they arrived at “a true conclusion for the population from which the sample was drawn” and did they do it “with a known controlled probability of being correct”. This is important because if the research is not valid or reliable, it’s useless. A healthcare analogy would be that conducting surgery in an environment that isn’t sterile, using equipment that is not properly sterilized. Any article that mentions results or statistics should be scrutinized using this information.

The next step can be extremely useful in figuring out whether the content of the article is relevant. Sometimes an article can have a fantastic methodology and theoretical framework, but the result doesn’t sufficiently answer the problem it set out to solve. By highlighting the hypothesis and the results or conclusion of the article, you can juxtapose this next to your article summary and see whether they correlate, as they should. If not, revisiting the summary can be quite valuable in making sure you didn’t misinterpret anything.

To write an effective article review, you must first read the article through two or three times, at the most. This is most useful in giving you a ‘feel’ for the content and theoretical framework. It’s best to make a short, concise summary of the article to start with. This will allow you to work iteratively while not losing the big picture.

4. Common Mistakes to Avoid in Article Reviews

Flicking straight to writing a review without meticulously creating an outline. Writing a review without referring to the article, involving relying too heavily on memory. Being too reliant on the secondary sources. Although it is often informative to compile data from a variety of sources, it is crucial to focus on whether the selected information is valid and reliable. Sourcing data from the original article is critical to analyze the information and its credibility. Overspending too much time on the summary on your part. It is often difficult for a student to determine whether they have toiled too long on the summary. Ideally, the summary should comprise half of the review, with the rest of the review focused on the article’s positive and negative points. A simple solution to determine whether you are spending too long on the summary is to ask someone to read your review and assess the time it took for them to read the last summary. If it seems that it was too brief, then it is likely that you have spent too long on it.

5. Conclusion

The rapid growth of the internet and distance learning programs is a big hope for students in this millennium. The hope that we emphasize is to graduate from a certain level (elementary, secondary, or higher education) with satisfactory achievement. With the internet, students can learn easier and can follow the lesson without any limitation. Meanwhile, article reading and article reviewing are one of the effective ways to improve knowledge but not consume a lot of student time. This is very good to be implemented on students who have a limitation of time like the students in secondary education level who are restricted by some subjects which are learned on the next level so that they can prepare themselves to face the lesson on the next level in higher education. This is also suitable to be implemented on higher education programs which they can look for a better understanding of the subjects which they learned this. The second hope is to get an article or journal review which has better quality. By this way, many professors, lecturers, or teachers are forced to have a better knowledge to increase their career. The research given will be very useful because it is recorded in the article and journal. But it is different with medical research or healthcare research. It is required to regularly increase knowledge about health and medical. With the hope of article research and journal given to the students, it helps for their understanding about the article and finally they have the intention to follow the topic and make a discussion from that. But many articles and journals are too hard to understand because they use English which is not their main language. So the article review and journal review are an effective way to understand the article, usually it provides a brief explanation about the content and gives an opinion whether this article is useful or not and should be continued with a detailed explanation.