The ability to critically read journal articles is a skill that is developed with practice. This skill is especially useful when you transfer to a 4-year college or university.
If you are contemplating attending graduate school to earn a Masters, professional, or Doctoral degree, then analyzing journal articles is an essential skill.
Analyzing a journal article is related to reading. Reading is a skill that is developed with practice and is important for your future academic, professional, and personal endeavors.
- Academically, your reading load will increase with each semester you are in higher education. Building that skill now will serve you well into the future.
- Professionally, you will have contracts, employee handbooks, technical manuals, financial reports, and other documents to read.
- Personally, your son, daughter, nephew, or niece will need you to teach them to read.
Estimated Time
An estimated 180 minutes is needed to complete this activity.
Instructions
Download PDF of the article
- Mattes, Michaela, and Jessica L. P. Weeks. 2019. “Hawks, Doves, and Peace: An Experimental Approach.” American journal of political science 63(1): 53–66.
Analyze the Article
- Identify the 12 parts of the article, as described in the Journal Article” href=”https://gcccd.instructure.com/courses/30583/pages/jaa-anatomy-of-a-journal-article” data-api-endpoint=”https://gcccd.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/30583/pages/jaa-anatomy-of-a-journal-article” data-api-returntype=”Page”>Anatomy of a Journal Article and elaborated upon in the Analyzing Journal Articles” href=”https://gcccd.instructure.com/courses/30583/pages/jaa-details-of-analyzing-journal-articles” data-api-endpoint=”https://gcccd.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/30583/pages/jaa-details-of-analyzing-journal-articles” data-api-returntype=”Page”>Details of Analyzing Journal Articles.
Demonstrate identification of parts
- Paper: hand write on the margins or the back of the page
- Electronic: electronically highlight the text and/or comment in margins of the page
- LESS THAN 15% PLAGERISM
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Rubric
Criteria Ratings Points Title Identified YesNo 10 Main Point YesNo 50 Question YesNo 50 Puzzle Identified YesNo 100 Debate Identified YesNo 100 Theory Identified YesNo 100 Hypotheses Identified YesNo 150 Research Design Written YesNo 190 Empirical Analysis Identified YesNo 100 Policy Implications Identified YesNo 50 Contribution to the Discipline Identified YesNo 50 Future Research Identified YesNo 50 SEPERATE Please write at least 6 sentences reflecting on the Journal Article Analysis.Sentence #1: Your 1st Sentence should be a question. Examples of questions include:
- What did you find most interesting about the Journal Article Analysis? Why did you find this the most interesting?
- What did you find most relevant to your daily life about the Journal Article Analysis? Why did you find this the most relevant?
- You are welcome to ask and answer your own question.
Sentence #2-6: Sentences 2 through 6 should be your response to the question you posed in sentence #1.
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