Journal Article Analysis

About

Journal articles are peer-reviewed publications that help scholars communicate ideas, theories, empirical analyses, and conclusions.

The ability to critically read journal articles is a skill that is developed with practice. This skill is especially useful when you transfer to a 4-year college or university.

If you are contemplating attending graduate school to earn a Masters, professional, or Doctoral degree, then analyzing journal articles is an essential skill.

Analyzing a journal article is related to reading. Reading is a skill that is developed with practice and is important for your future academic, professional, and personal endeavors.

Academically, your reading load will increase with each semester you are in higher education. Building that skill now will serve you well into the future.
Professionally, you will have contracts, employee handbooks, technical manuals, financial reports, and other documents to read.
Personally, your son, daughter, nephew, or niece will need you to teach them to read.

Instructions

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD PDF OF THE ARTICLE

POSC 121 – Hall, Andrew B., and Daniel M. Thompson. 2018. “Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in US Elections.” The American Political Science Review 112 (3): 509–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000023. (Links to an external site.)

STEP 2: ANALYZE THE ARTICLE (2PAGES)

Identify the 12 parts of the article, as described in the Anatomy of a Journal Article and elaborated upon in the Details of Analyzing Journal Articles, and you can also review the Walkthrough.
Optional:Schedule a tutoring appointment with the Writing Center or meet with a NetTutor (if available) if you want a 3rd party to help you think through this assignment
Optional: Upload a picture of you Writing Center Tutoring slip or a screenshot of your NetTutor interaction as evidence

STEP 3: DEMONSTRATE IDENTIFICATION OF PARTS

Paper: hand write on the margins or the back of the page
Electronic: electronically highlight the text and/or comment in margins of the page

STEP 4: WRITE OUT THE RESEARCH DESIGN

Of the 12 parts, only one of them needs to be written out: Research Design. The Research Design is how the author compares the effect of the explanatory variable (X) on the outcome variable (O) in a group (G) or set of groups.
If needed, return to the Details of Analyzing Journal Articles page and the Walkthrough Presentation for clarification on the concept.
For an in-depth discussion on research design, you can read Chapter 6 – Elements of Research Design in Introduction to Political Science Research Methods (Links to an external site.).
Step 5: Upload your file upload submission

Paper: If you hand wrote your analysis on a printed paper, please use CamScanner app (Links to an external site.), use “Batch” function to take pictures of each page and create a single PDF. After a single PDF is created, please upload the file.
Electronic Option 1: If you used Adobe PDF software to annotate, then you can upload the annotated file
Electronic Option 2: You can try annotating in the Canvas Student App.
- How do I submit a PDF assignment with annotations in the Student app on my iOS device? (Links to an external site.)
- How do I submit a PDF assignment with annotations in the Student app on my Android device? (Links to an external site.)

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