AST1000/Course guide/Culture/Assignment

Document Analysis of a Secondary Source

In this assignment you will be developing your information literacy and research skills (which are associated skills) by locating and then critically evaluating a journal article.

Task One: Search for the following article in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ - http://doaj.org/ ):

Use the search engine that appears to search for the journal title (not the article title or author).

You will then need to follow the link to the journal homepage to search in its archive. The year of publication will be an essential search tool.

NB: You do not need to write anything for Task One as the locating of the article will speak for itself.

Task Two: Critically evaluate the article by providing answers to the following questions. You must write between 150 and 200 words for each question for questions 2, 3 and 4.


 * 1) Write a fully formatted Harvard reference for the journal article
 * 2) How would you assess the academic credibility of the article? Is the author/s well qualified or associated with any professional bodies? Is the journal peer reviewed? Is it current (i.e. still up to date)? Has the author/s used internal evidence? Is it objectively written or is there evidence of some bias?
 * 3) What is the article’s major point of argument or assertion?
 * 4) What is the evidence used to support this argument?

Submission: Attach your submission to an email with subject line RRAP102 Assessment Submission and addressed to  [mailto:marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au]