Journal Article Review

Article Review
• An article review is written for an audience who is knowledgeable in
the subject matter instead of a general audience.
• When writing an article review, you will summarize the main ideas,
arguments, positions, and findings, and then critique the article’s
contributions to the field and overall effectiveness.
Critique
• As a verb
• critique means to review or examine something critically.
• As a noun
• A critique is that review or examination, like an art essay or a book review.

• The French version of this word is spelled the same which mean “the art of criticism” and came from the
Greek kritike teckhne “the critical art”

• Evaluate (a theory or practice) in a detailed and analytical way

“the authors critique the methods and practices used in the research”

• A method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse. Although critique is commonly
understood as a fault finding and negative judgment, it can also involve merit recognition, and in the
philosophical tradition it also means a methodical practice of doubt.
Journal Article Review
Word-limit: 2000 words including references

Students need to suggest peer-reviewed journal articles

related in ABE (published from January 1, 2000 onwards).

Articles are to be chosen from A/A*/B category journals

(list will be provided by the lecturer).
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• Structure

Introduction (a sentence that introduces the author, title of the article, name of the journal,
volume, issue, date of publication and pages. Students should need to: briefly explain the
topic of the article; present the aim of the article; and summarise the main findings. The
introduction should be concluded with a statement of your evaluation of the article)

Body (a summary of the main points of the article in the same order the author uses.
Students should also provide some critical response (both positive and negative statements)
to the article)

Conclusion (a final evaluation of the overall usefulness of the article)

• Note: as a general guideline, students should allocate 10% of their word length for
Introduction, 80% for Body and 10% for Conclusion      
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• General requirements:

 use 12 point Times New Roman font

 use 1.5 line spacing
 critical review (of journal article) must be typed
 pages must be numbered consecutively