DEV-5063, Development Policy
Instructions for Article Critique
Assignment Description: In this article critique exercise, you are asked to choose an article of
your choice on development policy in any developing societies. The article critique should be 4-
5 pages in length. You are expected to critique the chosen article by summarizing the key points
and arguments in the article and assess among other things its strengths and weaknesses. The
chosen article must be from a peer reviewed journal and at least 10 pages long.
Purpose: This exercise will help you to analyze articles and get the most out of them. This is
particularly important in the review of literature for the final paper for this class.
Article critique outline: The article critique will consist of the following sections: (1) A title of
the article, (2) an abstract that summarizes the purpose of the article, the specific problem of
economic development that the article centers on, (3) what literature was used and how relevant
references are to the subject of the article in question, (4) what research design and procedures
were used, (5) how the data used in the article was analyzed and presented, and, finally, (6) the
conclusion and implication of the study. Each of these areas and what they specifically require is
presented in the assignment rubric matrix.
Please find a summary of all the areas that your paper will be graded on in the matrix on page 2,
and the possible points each aspect of the paper will earn. A hard and fast rule will not be applie
