Journal Article Critique

This is the book to use for this assignment. I am sure you probably know websites where you can have access to e-books.

Book:

Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation Fifth Edition

ISBN: 978-1-4833-8061-2

Class:

Applied Research Methods for Policy & Management – PAD4723

I am going to try to help you through the questions and how to approach this assignment. This is basically answering these questions using some materials from the book.

Questions:

1. Identification of the research question(s), objective(s), and hypothesis, if available.

2. Brief discussion of the linkage between the research question(s) and the broader literature reviewed.

3. Identification of the dependent and major independent variables and their measurement.

4. Identification of data source(s), unit of analysis and type of data (time series, or cross sectional, and etc.).

5. Identification and brief discussion of the main research methods used.

6. Brief discussion of the main research results and their generalizability.

7. Brief discussion of the overall quality and organization of the article.

For question #1:

To answer question 1, I would read the article first and then define what the research question(s), objective(s), and hypothesis.

For question #2:

To answer question 2, It is pretty much self-explanatory, you just identify the research question(s) and find linkage to the remainder of the article.

For question #3:

To answer question 3, use this link https://www.simplypsychology.org/variables.html to learn about the D and I variables, and find the dependent and independent variables in the article.

For question #4:

To answer question 4, I would identify the data source, like what are they using to do this research (Facebook and Instagram). I don’t know what the unit analysis would be. The type of Data would be the type of system within the source are they using to do the research (for example, The crowding-out perspective).

For question #5:

To answer question 5, I would find out which research methods were used. Some examples of research methods studies in class would be: quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis.

For question #6 and #7:

These two questions are pretty much self-explanatory.