Reading academic articles
Reading academic articles - questions to ask yourself
When you are reading your academic articles, here are some questions you might want to ask yourself.
Make notes as you read your articles - it will help you to remember what you have read and therefore you will be better prepared to discuss it in class.
Make notes as you read your articles - it will help you to remember what you have read and therefore you will be better prepared to discuss it in class.
- What is the title and who are the authors?
- Where and when was it published?
- What is the background to this piece of research?
- What research questions/hypotheses are given?
- What kind of methods (quantitive or qualitative) and instruments (observation, interviews, surveys, etc) did the authors use?
- What kind of sample (probability, non-probability, representative, etc) was used?
- what were the demographics of the sample (size, gender, etc) and how did they find it (purposive, random, snowballing, etc?
- What are the findings, where the hypotheses proven, and how did they interpret their findings?
- What are my thoughts about this article and it's findings?