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how to do critical analysis of an article?

there are many points come to mind when we are going to do a critical analysis of an article
is we can only focus on negative points of writer or we should also focus the positive points of the written article.

don't think too much about it just focus on the following points.

  • first, check the title is it clear or ambiguous.
  • check the abstract if it clearly defined the whole research, its results, analysis population, if not is it clearly defined the topic for which it makes note it
  •  check the year in which the article was written and the article was published
  • check the methodology and result is it is written clearly or not 
  • while checking the result check the table format how they are present.
  • lastly, check the reference is the reference in the whole article is new or old... if the topic is new and many people does not know about it then the reference should be new....if the article is based on many years old studies and now no research is done on it then we can use the old references...but if the topic is common like depression of diabetes then we can use almost 5 years old research but not much older then five years old research...because it affect the findings..

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