ARTICLE REVIEW GUIDELINE AND PROCEDURE

Reading and summarizing a research article in the any various of sciences can be
overwhelming. Below is a simple model to guide students through this process. To note, the
article may probably a research based article and or a non-research based article.
The research based article is an article produced and written down based on the result
of the research (research, thesis, and dissertation). In this, the author work hard and smartly
to compress a long report approximately hundreds pages to be 7- 15 pages in length. This
need an extra efforts and strategy how to make a long written text to be shorter one.
While the non-research based article is an article which produced and written down not
based the result of the research (research, thesis, and dissertation) but it is written and
developed based on theoretical review, or review of the book, and the problem solution
article. The length of this article may range from 5 to 10 pages. Again it depends on how the
author develop his or her writing.
A. Research based article review procedure and template
No Element Description
A Journal Identity
1 Article Identity Write completely the article identity including- the title,
author, the name of journal, year of publication, etc.
2 A brief summary of the Write down a very brief summary of the article
article wholeness about the issue or theme of the article. This
may consist of 50-10 words in length.
B What and how to criticize
1 Abstract Describe, comment, and criticize the abstract of the
article whether it meets a minimum standard of
abstract writing or relevant to the rules of abstract
writing (To do this section, the article review ought to
know understand the architecture of the abstract
writing itself).
In addition, the number of components or part of
abstract writing depend the research paradigm and or
the journal style. They may vary one another.
2 Research Methodology Due to this article is a research based article, a certain
type of research (quantitative or qualitative paradigm)
have different research methodology in terms of
components and procedure how the methodology is
used and elaborated. Also to note and remember that
whether the research methodology match and meet the
type of research in terms of components and step and or
procedure.
Here, you as an article review try to comment, analyze,

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 and criticize whether the article meets the standard
minimum of the methodology used in the research or
relevant to the research issue or theme or not.
In addition, you can show and draw the strength and
weakness. You may simultaneously describe the
strength and weakness of the methodology by using
point by point thought organization and or block style
organization description.
3 Result and discussion In this section, generally the result and discussion
section are written one section but sometimes the two
are describe and written separately.
If it is written in one section, usually the author writes
the result of the research first and followed by the
discussion section later. The results of the research
must be in line with the research problem.
Then, the description of the result and discussion
section of the research can also be written separately.
In this case, the article author label the section as
follow a) result of research and b) discussion.
To many case, the research problem (s) often is or are
not written explicitly the article that is why article
reviewer consequently cannot detect whether the result
of the research is in line with the research problem (s).
In case of the
The important point for the article review is to analyze
the discussion whether the discussion section consists of
three domains of data-a) the research data itself, b) the
relevant previous studies or research used or quoted,
and c) the theories used in the research.
To review the discussion, the article reviewer must
analyze whether the article involve the three types of
data or not. Or whether in discussion section, the
article shows its novelty of the issue or theme
researched.
4 Conclusion A conclusion is the last section and or content of the
article. It must summarize the whole article in term of
one single paragraph and short.
To review this, the article reviewer has to smartly and
comprehensively analyze whether the conclusion is
presented in a proper manner in accordance to how the
conclusion should be written.
5 Linguistics Domain Language use in scientific writing and or in science
language is different form the language use in public or
common and or daily language. They may be different
in terms of lexis, grammatical pattern and or syntax,

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 scientific and technical terms, etc. It also discusses the
consistency of the terms used.
To note, the same words and or lexis may different
meaning in different field of study.
To review this domain, the article reviewer must have a
good and qualified of understanding and knowledge
regarding the rules and characteristics of the scientific
writing and lexis, grammatical pattern and or syntax,
scientific and technical terms as well.
5 Citations and references The terms of citation could fall into two domains-in text
citation and reference list citation. The rules of citation
both domain depends of the citation manual which are
often and widely used in academic and scientific
writing. To say some, APA style standing for American
Psychology Association (APA style) is widely used in
social and humanity field of science, or MLA (Modern
Language Association) is particularly used in the field
of linguistic study, or AMS (American Mathematic
Society), etc.
The rules and ethics of the citation styles above may
different from one another. So that why different
journal publisher may use different style.
To comment and criticize this section, the article
reviewer must be well familiar and informed with the
citation style used in the article.
C Recommendations and Suggestions
Recommendation After, article reviewer reviews the article, in the last
Suggestions section, he/she should recommend and suggest what to
revise, or what to improve in the article in order to
provide better article.
D Reviewer Comment In this section, the article reviewer may draw is opinion
or evaluation overall about the article by rating it with
likert scale ( strongly good, good, neutral, poor, and or
very poor).
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Note: 1. This is one way to review the article. There will probably other guide line. Again it
depends on the convention among scientists and researchers.
2. The terms and conditions and description subject to change.