Assignment 2: Journal Article Critique

Assignment 2: Journal Article Critique

Due Date: After you have completed Unit 8

Credit Weight: 5% of your final grade

Expectation: 625-700 words (plus title page and references), based on a template, using APA Style.

Instructions

You are required to complete a journal article critique based on an article in the list below. This assignment is designed to help you read a research article correctly and efficiently, and to practice using APA Style. These skills will be valuable in completing the research paper later in the course. This assignment follows the same format as Assignment 1, but you will choose from a different set of articles.

You are required to follow the Journal Article Critique Template provided, which includes the headings required, the questions that you must address, and formatting instructions. Your report must be in narrative (paragraph) form.

The critique must be an original work: that is, not copied from someone else, and not used in this course in a previous registration or in any other course taken at Athabasca University or elsewhere. Otherwise, this constitutes plagiarism and academic misconduct.

You will not be permitted to rewrite your journal article critique, so please follow the instructions carefully. Weiten and McCann (2013) give an excellent introduction to journal articles and to APA Style in Chapter 2, pages 77-78.

Articles

For this assignment, you must choose one of the following articles:

If you choose one of the articles listed below, no further approval is required. If you have an outside article [i.e., not on the list] that you would like to critique, you must submit the article or provide the particulars to your tutor for approval first – it must be pertain to Chapter 2 content. Approval is at the tutor’s discretion. If you submit an unapproved outside article critique, it will not be marked and you will receive a zero ‘0’ on the assignment.

Bereczkei, T., Gyuris, P., &Weisfeld, G. E. (2004). Sexual imprinting in human mate choice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271(1544), 1129-1134. doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2672

Beyea, S. C., & Nicoll, L. H. (1998). Dispelling the myth that research answers all questions. AORN Journal, 68(6), 1044-1047. doi:10.1016/S0001-2092(06)62145-5

Herzog, H. A. (1990). Discussing animal rights and animal research in the classroom. Teaching of Psychology, 17(2), 90-94. doi:10.1207/s15328023top1702_3

Kellogg, R. L. (1980). Sherlock Holmes and the educational process. Teaching of Psychology, 7(1), 41-44. doi:10.1207/s15328023top0701_11

Rosnow, R. L. (1990). Teaching research ethics through role-play and discussion. Teaching of Psychology, 17(3), 179-181. doi:10.1207/s15328023top1703_10

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