ANTHR150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Briey
7 Nov 2017
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Reading a scholarly journal article is not easy. If an article has been published in a scholarly journal, presumably, the editors believed that it contained information signi cant to the discipline(s) covered by the journal. Here are a few tips that should assist you in critically evaluating the research articles you read. Read the title carefully: more information is contained in the title than you think. It is very important that you pay attention to information in the title. The purpose of the abstract is to summarize the article. If the author has done a good job, the abstract should provide you with the theoretical motivation for the paper, the major results and a brief general discussion. Just read the abstract, but often it is a great help to understanding the entire article. Where was the work conducted (i. e. , laboratory or eld).
