How to read a scholarly article
The link below takes you to a great article about how to read a scholarly article.
The author gives you a series of questions that will help you to think critically about the article. See the top of page 2.
For example, one of the questions is "Does the author, in the initial portion of the article, provide an overview of the problem to be addressed in the study?"
https://ils.unc.edu/courses/2015_spring/inls151_003/Analyzing_Research_Articles.pdf
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