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Article Critique #2 Assignment ENG 501

STILL HONING OUR ARTICLE CRITIQUE SKILLS

For this week’s major assignment, you are going to write another article critique. Again, an article critique is a specific

type of reading response that asks you to read, analyze and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of an academic

article. Critiques are holistic and examine both the content of the article and the ways in which it is written before

rendering an opinion on the validity or worthiness of the article. Ultimately, the purpose of the critique is to determine if

the article meets your (personal and field-specific) standards of topic selection, evidence, logic and writing style.

The article you choose must be one you retrieved through Trine’s Research Hub.

THE ASSIGNMENT

You need to carefully and critically read an article of your choice from the Trine Research Hub – your article must be a

peer-reviewed article from one of these databases. You then need to compose a narrative response of two (2) to three

(3) pages that is organized in the following sections:

• Discuss the connection of the topic to your career path, interests, etc. – whatever reason brought you to

choosing this topic,

• Briefly (no more than one page) summarizes the article,

• Makes a claim about the strength or validity of the author’s claims while supporting your claims about the

author’s work with specific evidence from the article,

• Makes a supported recommendation about whether someone in your field should use this article in his/her own

research or writing.

FORMAT

Your critique should be in essay format, using complete sentences and paragraphs. It should begin with a paragraph

discussing the connection of the topic to your career path, interests, etc. – whatever reason brought you to choosing

this topic. Then write a summary that identifies the article and author. That should be followed by your evaluation of

the research and writing of the article, supported by evidence. Finally, you should conclude with a one (1) paragraph

recommendation, again supported by evidence, about the use of the article.

Your review should contain direct references (quotes, summaries and paraphrases) from the article. You need to

correctly cite your summary at the beginning with a signal phrase and in‐text citation. All other evidence should be

cited in APA format. Include a correctly formatted APA-style Reference entry on its own page.

APA formatting: You need to include a title page, APA citations, section headings, and a References page.