Qualitative Article Analysis Instructions

Choose 1 qualitative article and compose a 3-page review (not including the reference page in the count). Your review must include 2 sections (using Level I headings in APA): (1) a summary of the article, and (2) a critical analysis of the article.

Your summary must include:

• The purpose of the study;
• A description of participants/sample;
• The research design/data analysis (narrative, grounded theory, case study, phenomenology, ethnography, etc.);
• The method of data collection (questionnaire, document analysis, observation, open-ended or structured interview, etc.); 
• Analysis (Inductive/deductive approach, point of focus, summaries, memoing, indexing, coding, grouping, themes, order of analysis, type of analysis (content, narrative, discourse, framework, grounded theory), and
• The results.

Your analysis must include:

• Opportunities for further research not already stated in the article,
• Threats to validity or undocumented bias (credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability) on the part of the researcher(s),
• Other original insight or criticism, and
• Implications of the findings.

See your textbook if you need more help evaluating your article. Remember to include a reference page. All citations and references must be in current APA format.