Scholarly Journal Article Analysis and Critique
Your article review should be 3-4 pages long, double-spaced, 12-point font with 1 margins.
Make sure to include article citation at the beginning including: authors name, article title,
journal title, volume and issue numbers, date, and page numbers. In terms of citation
within the body of your paper, since you will only be citing from the article itself, just put
the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
There are several objectives with this assignment: 1. learn how to identify the main
arguments of a secondary source, 2. explain how an argument is structured, 3. understand
how historians use evidence and primary sources to back up their claims, 4. practice
academic style writing, 5. develop critical thinking skills
When writing your article review, these are the key questions to consider:
What is the authors subject? It is narrow or broad?
What is the thesis statement? How clearly and effectively is the thesis stated?
How does the author structure their argument?
What evidence/sources does the author use?
Is the author building off of other historians work? Is he challenging old assumptions or
supporting them?
Is the evidence adequate and convincing to support the argument?
Is the argument balanced? Has the author addressed opposing points of view?
How would you characterize the authors writing and writing style?
What questions are left unasked or unanswered? What further research could follow?
the article.
no woman no war
JOURNAL ARTICLE
No Woman No War: Women’s Participation in Ancient Greek Warfare
Pasi Loman
Greece & Rome
Vol. 51, No. 1 (Apr., 2004), pp. 34-54 (21 pages)
Published By: Cambridge University Press
Greece & Rome
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567878
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567878
