paper will include a brief summary of the paper (1 or 2 paragraphs is fine), and the
summary and critique must be a minimum of 2.0 pages in length, 1.5- spaced, #12 font, and be mechanically and grammatically sound.
paper will include a brief summary of the paper (1 or 2 paragraphs is fine), and the balance of the paper will be a critique of the article.
Include a full citation of the article at the end of the paper. No particular style for the citation required. Make sure you include authors, title, year published, sources, and pagination.
- For the critique section….
- Suggest choosing 3 or 4 items from the methods, results, and/or discussion section to critique to yield about 1.5 pages of critique.
- Be very specific and detailed in each item that you critique. For example, if you include “the paper was well written… ,” that is too general. Or, “I liked the graphs … .” That is too general.
- A good critique statement would be more like, “The sample size for each test group was only 5. A larger sample size might have resulted in disproving the null hypothesis that there is no difference between the number of infectious parasites in the treatment groups exposed to 10 mg/L versus 100 mg/L of pesticide.”