Critiquing Scholarly Articles & Other Resources
Critiquing Scholarly Articles & Other Resources
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Once you find scholarly studies, news articles, and more resources, your next step is to critique them! These tools and resources can help you critique the literature:
How to Read & Distill a Study
This infographic from Elsevier provides 4 steps for reading an article: Skim > Re-Read > Interpret > Summarize
As they say "Reading a scientific paper should not be done in a linear way (from beginning to end); instead, it should be done strategically and with a critical mindset, questioning your understanding and the findings. Sometimes you will have to go backwards and forwards, take notes and have multiples tabs opened in your browser."
Resources for Critiquing Scholarly Articles
Online Checklists
Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Checklists
13 critical appraisal checklists (.docx) to help you assess the trustworthiness, relevance and results of articles covering quantitative and qualitative designs including: Analytical Cross Sectional, Case Control, Case Reports, Case Series, Cohort, Diagnostic Test Accuracy, Economic Evaluations, Prevalence Studies, Qualitative Research, Quasi-Experimental, RCTs, Systematic Reviews, & Text & Opinion
8 critical appraisal checklists (.docx, .pdf) designed to be used when reading research: Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort, Case Control, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative, and Clinical Prediction Rule.
CASP checklists are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Books
Understanding and evaluating research: A critical guide by Sue LT McGregor (2018). Available in print: 001.4 M478
How to read a paper, 6th edition by Trisha Greenhalgh (2019). Available in print: 610.72 G813
Lit Reviews
Preparing literature reviews: Qualitative and quantitative approaches, 5th edition by M. Ling Pan (2016). Available in print: 808.066 P187 2016
Conducting your literature review by Susanne Hempel (2020) eBook available in FindIt@MSP
Resources for Critiquing Media & News Sources
How to Identify Fake News in 10 Steps (ProQuest)
Quick checklist for assessing media and news websites
Media Bias Chart (ad fontes Media)
Infographic providing guidance on the level of bias present in major media websites, podcasts, and TV stations
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