Understanding and critiquing qualitative research papers.
How to read a paper, critical review Reading a scientific article is a complex task. The worst way to approach this task is to treat it like the reading of a textbook—reading from title to literature cited, digesting every word along the way without any reflection or criticism.
Director in 2003, did not (and does not) support joining the Euro. CEP’s Brexit work is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. As a whole the CEP, receives less than 5% of its funding from the European Union. The EU funding is from the European Research Council for academic projects and not for general funding or consultancy.
The proposed research method, i.e. phenomenological investigation, and the theoretical foundations of phenomenological tradition as a paradigm in qualitative studies are not explained. The purpose of the research is to “explore the meaning of substance abuser’s experience while receiving acupuncture as a part of the treatment for substance dependence” (Bernstein, 2000).
More and more students are required to perform a critical literature review as part of their undergraduate or postgraduate studies. Whilst most of the latest research methods textbooks advise how to do a literature search, very few cover the literature review. This paper covers two types of review: a critical literature review and a systematic.
A new framework for critiquing health-related research is presented in this article. More commonly used existing frameworks tend to have been formulated within the quantitative research paradigm.
Writing a critique paper takes a lot of time and effort. Often, students try to find shortcuts to complete the paper in time such as simply summarizing, paraphrasing or copying and pasting the text. Using these steps when critiquing an article will not earn you a decent grade.
GEP produces a Research Paper Series, largely comprising papers by GEP Internal and External Research Fellows.They are available for viewing or downloading in PDF format. Those submitting papers to the GEP Research Paper Series are requested to email them in .doc and .pdf format to Hilary Hughes.