Journal Submit Article Reviews

You will review research article. The topic is up to you as long as you choose a peer-reviewed, academicresearch piece. I suggest choosing a topic that is at least in the same family as your expected dissertation topic so that you can start viewing what is out there. There are no hard word counts or page requirements as long as you cover the basic guidelines. Your completed paper shoud be 1 – 3 pages. There is no need for a cover page for this assignment. You must submit original work, however, and a paper that returns as a large percentage of copy/paste to other sources will not be accepted. (Safe Assign will be used to track/monitor your submission for plagiarism. Submissions with a Safe Assign match of more than 25% will not be accepted.) ***

**You must report at least one statistic/result from the paper and use correct APA formatting when reporting. If you don’t know a piece of the information needed, ie. the degrees of freedom or the test statistic, just put an asteric * for the missing part. For example: “The study showed a significant difference between the means….., (F[2, **]=**, p=0.023).

Please use APA formatting and include the following information:

• Introduction/Background: Provide context for the research article. What led the author(s) to write the piece? What key concepts were explored? Were there weaknesses in prior research that led the author to the current hypothesis or research question?
• Methodology: Describe how the data was gathered and analyzed. What research questions or hypotheses were the researcher trying to explore? What statistical analysis was used?
• Study Findings and Results: What were the major findings from the study? Were there any limitations?
• Conclusions: Evaluate the article in terms of significance, research methods, readability and the implications of the results. Does the piece lead into further study? Are there different methods you would have chosen based on what you read? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the article in terms of statistical analysis and application? (This is where a large part of the rubric is covered.)

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