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Rubric for Article Review

APA Cover 5/5 point

Your name and date

Header with page number

Introductory Paragraph

5/5 points

1. Author’s Thesis

Discuss the author’s thesis. Include article and author name

in this paragraph.

2. The Facts 20/20 points

Discuss three important facts the author uses to support thesis.

Explain or correlate the facts with facts from course content.

Use in text citation from course reading sto show connections

to this article.

Evaluate the resources provided with the article.

Are there resources provided with the article? Are they recent?

Body- minimum of 4 fully developed paragraphs

This should be a bulk of the report.

3. Strengths /weaknesses/discussion to the profession 40/40 points.

Describe the strengths of the information presented as it applies to the

professions. Critically evaluate the information in the article.

4. Is there bias or faulty reasoning? Evaluate the information for truth.

Bring in outside sources to support your analysis and review.

What are others saying about the same topic?

You must support claims of both fact and faulty reasoning.

Conclusion

5. Conclusions 10/10 points

Provide concluding remarks regarding your

review/evaluation of the article.

6. APA Format 10/10 points

in text

# of references

Reference page

7. Overall presentation 10/10 points

formatting

wording

person

tense

Comments/Reasons for Deductions:

Total 100/100