Guideline for Article Review

Introduction Before evaluation, the student is required to understand the subject matter of the paper first. Make sure that you have understood any concepts and the meaning of terms that have been included in the paper. The instructor may ask you questions regarding such concepts even if you mention them neither in the report nor in the presentation. For this, you may have to read books if available on the area. The best source of information is, however, the Internet. Try to locate and download some of the references cited in the paper. When you get such papers, they will also include further references and the chain continues indefinitely creating a tree, in which case you have to stop at one point. Normally downloading a paper from the publisher requires subscription, although abstracts can be freely downloaded.

Introduction and Criteria Once you have a good understanding of the concepts in the paper, you may start evaluating it. Some of the considerations in evaluating a paper include, but are not limited to, the following: Summarize the intention of the paper in your Introduction – Was the problem identification sound? – Is the methodology acceptable?

Introduction and Criteria Thoroughly study the literature review part if there is any. This will also help you to understand the paper better. Assess every aspect of the proposed solution; identify the strong and weak points. Identify conditions under which the paper would have been improved. Note that a paper is published does not necessarily mean that it is perfect. There are a lot of useless papers that are published in accredited journals. In most papers addresses of the authors are included. If there are issues you would like them to clarify or give you additional reading material, don’t hesitate to write them. Most are happy and willing to help, unless they are not comfortable with the paper. When you do so, identify yourself as student in MBA program at LCM and write the details in a polite and diplomatic way. It is also possible that the paper may have been referred by recent publications and commented by other authors.

Report Organization There is no simple and fast rule as to what the report should look like and should not have a similar organization for all of you. Normally, it may contain the following sections: Cover page Introduction Detailed content: This is the important one. Here is what you are going to say everything you have in mind. You may choose the organization and structure as appropriate for this part Summary/Conclusion References Appendices if any

Report Format A maximum of 5 pages, including the cover page and the table of contents page if any A4 size paper 1” margin for all (top, bottom, left, right) 1.5 line spacing; justified 12 point Times New Roman for the body text and bigger fonts (increment by 1) for titles and subtitles depending on the depth (hierarchy) of titles you have -The pages must be numbered starting from the Introduction page -Spelling and major grammatical errors may lead to mark deductions