How to read research critically - an introduction

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Aims
Why is critical appraisal important?
Scientific research
Social science research
Summary
Further help

Listed below are the questions we would like to ask about the way the research was carried out. If you click the middle column you will see some explanatory notes. The right hand column shows that these queries represent some general questions which you might ask about reports of experimental research.

Text only alternative of this exercise.

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Adapted from the Open University's SAFARI tutorial by Cardiff University, with permission from the Open University Library.

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