Project 1: Evaluate a Scholarly Article
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Scholarly Article” scenario.
In this project, you will develop scholarly article
evaluation competencies that are foundational evidence-based management skills.
You will begin by completing the reading (or review, depending on your
background) of the principles of scholarly argument construction and
deconstruction, as well as critical thinking. Then, you will practice what you
learned in that reading both in Discussions with colleagues and, finally, in a
formal scholarly article evaluation.
The timeline for this project is four weeks and the project
has eight steps. Before starting work, review all the steps of the
“Evaluate a Scholarly Article” project so that you understand the
project’s overall process and goals. Then, begin with Step 1: “Investigate
an Evidence-Based Management Orientation (Reading).”
When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated
using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check
your work before submission.
1.1: Construct an
argument using scholar-practitioner communication skills
1.2: Write using
APA style and format.
5.3: Appraise a
piece of collected evidence, such as a scholarly article.
Instructions for Evaluating the Proof-of-Concept Target
Article
In this assignment, you will evaluate a scholarly article in
accordance with generally accepted academic standards and practices of
evaluation.
Ultimately, the question that you’ll answer in your
scholarly article evaluation is, “How do you assess this piece of
scholarship?” There is no right answer to this question, but there are
stronger and weaker arguments to be made.
First, you will want to make sure you’ve studied the
resources provided to you on scholarly article evaluation. Perhaps you will
search for a few more in the library, and on Google and YouTube.
Second, you’ll want to make sure you’ve read the scholarly
article closely. Think critically about the quality of the article,
particularly in light of what you’ve learned about evidence evaluation. Do not
use any of the resources you’ve studied as an evaluation template; your
evaluation should make sense with the given article. If a potential evaluation
area is neither particularly good nor particularly bad, there’s probably no
reason to address it.
Third, outline the arguments (claims and evidence) you plan
to make in your thorough evaluation. The criteria against which you are
measuring the quality of the scholarly article should be clear.
Finally, write your formal evaluation of the scholarly
article. Speak to your target audience—a professional organization for which
you want to consult—through your writing, and clearly explain your assessments
and judgments. Proofread. Ensure that your audience can tell whether you find the
article overall to be strong or weak, and whether you consider the article
trustworthy as evidence or not. Ensure that there are not errors in grammar or
spelling.
The scholarly article evaluation should be about 6–8 pages
of content, plus title page and references. You do not need an abstract. The
evaluation should adhere to the standards of APA style, especially in terms of
the following:
title page
page format:
proper placement of page number, margins, font
in-text citations
references (Note
that all in-text citations should appear in the References list; all items in
the References list should appear at least once in-text.)
avoiding bias
