Due Date: After you have completed Unit 8
Credit Weight: 10% of your final grade
Expectation: mandatory range between 625–700 words (excluding title page and reference pages), double-spaced, and word-processed, using standard Times New Roman 12-point font, and 1-inch margins all around. The paper must adhere to APA style (7th edition).
Instructions:
You are required to complete a journal article critique of an article chosen from the list provided in the Digital Reading Room. The assignment is designed to help you read a research article correctly and efficiently, and to practise using APA Style.
You are required to follow the Journal Article Critique Template provided, which includes the headings required, the questions that you must address, and formatting instructions. Your report must be in narrative (paragraph) form.
The critique must be an original work; that is, not copied from someone else and not used in this course in a previous registration or in any other course taken at Athabasca University or elsewhere. Otherwise, this constitutes plagiarism and academic misconduct. For more information on plagiarism, please see Athabasca University’s Student Academic Misconduct Policy and the section on Academic Integrity in the Course Information.
You will not be permitted to re-write your journal article critique, so please follow the instructions carefully. Weiten and McCann (2019) give an excellent introduction to journal articles and to APA Style in Chapter 2 in the Personal Application section.
Articles:
For this assignment, you must choose one article (different from the one you critiqued for Assignment 1) from the list provided:
Journal Articles for Critique (Assignments 1 & 2)
If you choose one of the articles from the list provided, no further approval is required. If you have an outside article (i.e., not on the list) that you would like to critique, you must submit the article or provide the particulars to your tutor for approval first. Approval is at the tutor’s discretion. If you submit an unapproved outside article critique, it will not be marked and you will receive a zero “0” on the assignment.
Assignment Resources:
APA style (7th edition)
Journal Article Critique Template
Marking Guidelines for Assignments 1 & 2
Submit your critique for marking and feedback via the upload link on this page.
As two written assignments are required for this course, please allow yourself enough time to wait for feedback from your tutor before submitting the second assignment. This valuable information ensures that you do not make the same mistakes which could result in an up to 5-point deduction in the Writing Skills section of the rubric.
APA Format- https://psych.athabascau.ca/open/apa7/