Criticle critique

Research Methods – RESM610

Assignment 3- Article Critique (20 marks)

Submission Due: Refer to VLE.

Article Critique

Your third individual assignment is to critique a journal article.

Here are a few guidelines.

Each one of you will be allotted a research article. These articles will be available in a folder in

Common resources.

Read the handout ‘How to Critique a Journal Article’, which I have uploaded to guide you

through the process.

There are about more than 15 points. Address fully at least 10 questions from this list in your

critique of the article.

More instructions will be given during class.

Words: About 2000. In am not unduly concerned about word length. Quality and not quantity is

what matters. Address relevant issues in the guidelines.

Important Note:

Attention is drawn to the anti-plagiarism policy of the university. This assignment must be your

own work. You may receive support and assistance from staff, you are also encouraged to

discuss problems and share ideas with your colleagues. Importantly, the assignment as submitted

by you must have been developed by you.

If you have received any assistance in developing the project, or taken ideas from somebody

else, you must acknowledge all of these. This work is intended to be an individual assignment,

so collaborative work will not be accepted.

Plagiarism/ Academic Fraud

You are reminded of the university policy on all forms of academic fraud. Submissions are

automatically checked for plagiarism.

The following is considered academic fraud:

 Plagiarism: using someone else’s ideas without complete or proper reference. The most

blatant and severe forms of plagiarism includes copying several paragraphs/chunks of

texts without proper reference from books, reports, articles or electronic resources and

posing them as your own; copying from other students in assignments that are individual;

and multiple submission submitting work that has been used in other courses to receive

study points.

 Other forms of dishonest/fraudulent behavior with the aim of getting study credits, such

as having someone else write one’s assignment, or writing assignments for someone else,

or stating that a student has participated in an assignment when he has not.

 Collusion: Helping someone in the above activities.