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ARTICLE EVALUATION
Step One: Obtaining Article Aspect/Element Poor Uses search engines Search Engine only at the basic level (i.e., Google) Identifies appropriate databases Database strategies Uses non"acade ic search engine Only !se one descriptor at basic level Fair Uses only one search engine at the advanced search level Uses online library general so!rces Use co binations of descriptors at basic level Good Uses several search engines at the advanced search level Uses !ltidisciplinary databases Excellent Uses scholarly help and tips of !ltiple search engines Uses specific databases (#sy $%&'C()*, #syc 'N+O etc)

Use co binations of Use co binations of descriptors at advanced descriptors and li iters search

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Step T o: E!al"ating Article Poor E!al"ates c"rrenc# of information E!al"ates content of articles E!al"ates ob$ecti!it# of the a"thor%s riting st#le Older than ,5 years Content does not relate /ell to research topic 0!st a!thor1s opinion /ith no s!pport Fair .ithin ,5 years Content is ini ally related to research topic Opinions of a!thors and others /ith ini al s!pport Good .ithin ,0 years Content is oderately related to research topic Opinions of a!thors and others /ith oderate s!pport *cholarly article that incl!des a disc!ssion of literat!re on the topic, so e concl!sions, pl!s s!pporting facts and statistics Excellent .ith 5 years Content is strongly related to research topic Opinions of a!thors and others /ith a lot of s!pport *cholarly article that incl!des literat!re revie/, ethodology, res!lts, disc!ssion and other co ponents of a research st!dy

E!al"ates the t#pe of article

General scholarly article *pec!lation2opinion that incl!des a article that only incl!des disc!ssion of the a!thor1s opinion literat!re on the topic and so e concl!sions

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Step Three: &ompare/&ontrast the articles Scholarl# articles (ist the headings2ele ents of the article Article ': 4enahe , *., 5 (ove, 4. (30,3). +orgiveness in psychotherapy6 &he 7ey to healing. Journal Of Clinical Psychology. 69(8), 839"835. :oi6,0.,0032;clp.330,8. &itle $!thors $!thor $ffiliation $bstract <ey/ords +orgieness and %eligio!s #erspectives $lcoholics $nony o!s &eachings abo!t +orgivenes *cientific *t!dy of +orgiveness and *elf"+orgiveness *elf"+orgiveness *elf"+orgiveness #rocess +orgiveness and *elf"+orgiveness &herape!tic *tages Case )=a ple :isc!ssion ' plications +!t!re %esearch %eferences

Opinion articles (ist the headings2ele ents of the article Article ': %ai77a, 0. (30,3), :e ands for +ogiveness. The Heythrop Journal, 53, -3>"-30. :oi6,0.,,,,2;.,>?8"33?5.30,0.00,?.=. &itle $!thor $!thor $ffiliation 'ntrod!ction &he Control $rg! ent #ractical #roble s &/o Conceptions of :e anding .hy :e ands for +orgiveness are Often .rong Concl!ding %e ar7s Notes

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Article (: @!tt, 4. 4., *ana , +., G!lAar, *., 5 Bahya, +. (30,3). Cognitive e otional reg!lation and forgiveness. Interdisciplinary Journal of Conte porary !esearch in "usiness. #(,3), -?9"-93. &itle $!thors $!thor $ffiliation $bstract <ey/ords 'ntrod!ction (iterat!re %evie/ %ationale of this st!dy Ob;ective of the st!dy Cypotheses, 4ethodology #articipants 4eas!res @io :ate +or *e i"*tr!ct!red 'ntervie/ Ceartland +orgiveness *cale Cognitive ) otion %eg!lation D!estionaire #roced!re %es!lts :isc!ssion %eferences

Article (: <night, 0., 5 C!genberger, G. (300-). On forgiveness. $outhern %edical Journal, &''(>), >30">3,. &itle $!thors

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Article ): &a7ada, N., 5 $hb!chi, <. (30,3). &r!e and hollo/ forgiveness, forgiveness otives, and conflict resol!tion. International Journal of Conflict %anage ent, (#(3), ,8>" 300. &itle, $!thors, $!thor $ffiliation $bstract #!rpose :esign2 ethodology2approach +indings Originality2val!e <ey/ords #aper type 'ntrod!ction 4otives for forgiveness C, C3 &he relationship bet/een tr!e and hollo/ forgiveness and conflict resol!tion C3 C> *t!dy , 4ethod #articipants #roced!res %es!lts &he di ensions of forgiveness otives &he correlation bet/een otives for forgiveness,

Article ): Gor an, G. (30,0). +orgiveness &e=t. D!alitative 'nE!iry, ,?(-), 585"58-.

&itle $!thor $bstract <ey/ords :eclaration of Conflicting 'nterests +!nding @ios

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/illingness to forgive, and forgiving behanior &r!e and hollo/ forgiveness and otives for forgiveness &r!e and hollo/ forgiveness and conflict resol!tion :isc!ssion *t!dy 3 4ethod #articipants #roced!res %es!lts :i ensions of otives &r!e and hollo/ forgiveness and otives for forgiveness &r!e and hollo/ forgivenss and conflict resol!tion :isc!ssion Concl!sions and li itations %eferences .hat are the co on headings2ele entsF &itle, $!thor(s), $!thor(s) $ffiliation, $bstract, <ey/ords, 'ntrod!ction, 4ethod or 4ethodology, %es!lts, %eferences

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&itle and $!thor(s) are co on, altho!gh t/o had additional headings that /o!ld indicate a scholarly article, b!t !pon f!rther analysis, they /o!ld not E!alify. :isc!ss any co onalities and differences bet/een the opinion 5 *cholarly articles &he co onalities incl!de si ply the &itle and $!thor. :ifferences bet/een the t/o types of articles vary fro one to the ne=t !ch li7e the spots on a dal ation. Co/ever, yo! sho!ld be able to tell an e pirical st!dy fro any others as they /ill typically incl!de headings li7e ethodology, participants, proced!res, disc!ssion, concl!sion, li itations, and they ay incl!de hypotheses. &herefore, /hen yo! co e across an opinion article that ight incl!de an abstract, 7ey/ords, or even a reference list, yo!1ll 7no/ that it does not necessarily ean it is of e pirical E!ality.

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$ny other observations6 ' had e=pected opinion articles to be very si ilar in for at, b!t discovered that they differ E!ite /idely. *o e opinion articles can asE!erade as an e pirical article, so ' realiAe that ' need to loo7 a little closer to verify the type of article ' ay be reading. ' also noticed that there can be differences /ithin an e pirical article s!ch as the types of heading !sed. Co/ever, an e pirical article is clearly a st!dy cond!cted /ith the p!rpose of ans/ering a specific hypothesis. ' can see that there is clearly a different type of /riting bet/een the t/o different styles of articles.

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