Ask yourself these questions about each of the articles you select to build evidence-based answers and arguments for your term paper:
How did your sources design and conduct their research studies? -What populations were studied? What methodologies and assessments were used? How was data gathered and what statistical analyses were used to analyze the data? What information can you use from your sources to help build and justify your own study design?
Does your article answer some aspect of your research question? -Use the answers to build themes that you will use to organize your literature review
Does your article raise questions you hadn't considered or make claims that shape your thinking? -Integrate these into your arguments to develop and focus them further
Does your article provide evidence for any of your arguments? -Integrate the relevant evidence or data into your own argument and explain its significance
Does your article take a position counter to any of your arguments? -Include these sources to strengthen your own arguments by explaining and providing evidence of why you disagree with them
What relationships do you see between your articles? -Integrate the arguments and evidence from your sources together to use them as building blocks for your own conclusions and arguments
