Locate the article relevant to your research topic

Locate the article relevant to your research topic, and in approximately 300-500 words, detail the author's main arguments and claims, key concepts, and methods/approaches used. The review should be clear, comprehensive, and concise, and should contain three main paragraphs: the overall context of the article, the summary of the article, and finally, your analysis or critical opinion of the source. This last point may be the toughest; but it can also be the most enjoyable. This is your opportunity to critically evaluate the author: did the author commit a logical fallacy? Did the author conduct a poor research design (for example, was the sample size relevant to the study, or were other critical factors missing?) What could the author have done to make this a better article? I recognize this may be a new endeavor, and that you may be hesitant to critically evaluate a published author (and perhaps a leader in the field!). But, trust me, this is (1) a key practice in academia and (2) an acquired talent. It takes time to accurately develop criticism, but you need to start somewhere, and that somewhere is here.