article review

article review (3~4pages)

-motivation

First, provide an explanation of the motivation for the research.  Try to put it into context for your reader: why should they care about this?  What's the "hook"?  What questions did the researchers want to answer?  You should also clearly state the researchers' hypothesis here.

-method

 you should clearly describe what the researchers actually did.  What were they measuring?  Did they interview people?  Then describe what kinds of questions they asked (don't just list them).  Did they conduct an experiment?  Then talk about the conditions (what did they manipulate?) they were comparing and how they differed.  Avoid jargon: if you don't know what a word or phrase means, you shouldn't be writing it.  Either find out what it means, or skip it.

-finding

Third, how did the research turn out?  What were the results?  Did they support the researchers' hypothesis, or not?  What are the larger implications of this research--what does this mean for how we understand the world?  What's the big idea your reader can take away from this study?  Relate the results back to the questions that were raised in the first section.

-reference

also do not quotes!