Critique an article published in a major journal relevant to your discipline. It should be 3-5 pages long. Go online and examine recent issues of a journal in your discipline or one that interests you. Find an article that interests you and which employs one of the research techniques we’ve discussed in class: surveys, experiments, interviews, focus groups, case studies, participant observation,

Download the article to turn it in (upload) with your critique.

Your critique should contain the following elements:

Provide a complete citation of the article (Title, authors, journal, volume, year and pages) using APA Style (6th ed.).

What is the research problem (objective and questions)?

What is/are the hypothesis/hypotheses?

What are the major theories that it examines (briefly explain the theory)?

What is the research methodology (sample size, independent variables, dependent variables and how they were measured)?

Summarize the major results What does the author say is the major contribution of the study?

What would you say are the strengths and weaknesses of the study with a focus on its methodology?