LUNAR INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE

ARTICLE REVIEW GUIDELINES FOR THE COURSE PROJECT

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Article review activity is designed to enable you to enhance your analytical skill by
critically reviewing journal articles, working papers and other similar scientific works.
The basic principles to which you should abide and adhere with reviewing this article
are the following. (Please note that, it does not mean this is the only guideline for
article review; rather it is given for the sake of uniformity & fair evaluation!!)

Your review report should contain the following sections:

1) Summary of the article focusing on the following major issues (a summary of the

article (author’s main points) in your own words (this part can be rather brief)):

- Purpose of the article/ Problem statement/ gap that the article addresses

- Major and specific objectives it tries to achieve

- Data used (including its type-quantitative or qualitative)

- Method of data analysis

- Findings, Conclusions, recommendations and implications.

2) Your opinion about the strengths and weaknesses of the article (critical analysis

on novelty of the study, literature review, methodology, presentation, arguments,

and conclusion and implications). You can include your critiques here by

supporting your argument by other literature.

3) The general contribution/s/ of the work to the overall topic of your course if any.

Note:

1) You are required to review the article attached with this guideline.
2) Even if all of you are given a single article to review in the same guideline, but
it is expected that each of you has different skill in summarizing ideas and
explanations. Therefore, your work will be critically evaluated separately and
coping others work is strictly forbidden.

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 3) The review report for an article should not exceed a maximum of 5 pages.
4) Date of Submission: submission date June 13, 2023 before 5:00 PM.
5) Submission Modality: Soft copy directly emailed to
sitina.at.lunar@gmail.com
6) Write on the subject section course name, your full name, and ID
7) Rename your attached document by only Your name
8) Furthermore, you should include in the information in the following order.
a) Your name and class information;
b) Full bibliographical information for the article being reviewed, according
to an accepted format (the Turabian form used by most of the humanities
disciplines is to be preferred), as in the following template (for a journal
article):

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of the Article.” Journal Title
Volume/Issue (Date): page-numbers.

c) A summary of the article (author’s main points) in your own words.

d) Critical analysis (author’s methodology, presentation, arguments,
conclusions, etc.).
e) The general contribution of the work to the overall topic of your course

Further, consider the following points of critiques that are usually helpful when
reviewing an article:

1) Originality/Novelty/ of the study: Does the paper contain new (novel) ideas
and significant information? Is the reviewed article a study with an original
scientific contribution? Is there new gap that the article addresses?
2) Relationship to Literature: Does the paper demonstrate an adequate
understanding of the relevant literature in the field and cite an appropriate range
of literature sources? Is any significant work ignored? Is the literature research
sufficient? Does the research use a theoretical and/or conceptual model? Does
the literature review seem thorough & recent (within the last 5 years)? Does the
content of the literature review relate directly to the research problem? Is the
review of literature relevant to the research question?
3) Methodology: Is the paper's argument built on an appropriate base of theory,
concepts, or other ideas? Has the research or equivalent intellectual work on
which the paper is based been well designed? Are the methods employed
appropriate? Are the used models and methods suitable for the research topic
and purpose? Is the used research method adequately valid and reliable? Are the
methods consistent with the theory? Were the inclusion/exclusion criteria

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 specified for subject to be studied? How representative is the sample? Is the
context of the data appropriate for the research question? Do the selected
statistical tests appear appropriate?
4) Results, Discussions and Conclusion: Are results presented clearly and analyzed
appropriately? Are the tables, figures and graphs used in this study relevant and
clear? Is the explanation of the findings systematically presented and well-
organized? Are the data and findings of the study compared sufficiently with
other similar studies? Are the findings of the article aligned with the objective of
the study? Is the conclusion part of the study clear, understandable and
sufficient? Does the conclusion adequately tie together the other elements of the
paper?
5) Implications for research, practice and/or society: Does the paper identify
clearly any implications for research, practice and/or society? Does the paper
bridge the gap between theory and practice? How can the research be used in
practice (economic and commercial impact), in teaching, to influence public
policy, in research (contributing to the body of knowledge)? What is the impact
upon society (influencing public attitudes, affecting quality of life)? Are these
implications consistent with the findings and conclusions of the paper?
6) Quality of Communication: Does the paper clearly express its case and
measured against the technical language of the field? Has attention been paid to
the clarity of expression and readability, such as sentence structure, jargon use,
acronyms, etc? Is the text both grammatically accurate and clearly phrased?

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