Socratic Questions: Critical Evaluation

Here are some socratic questions when evaluating an argument in a journal article:

• What sources agree and why?
• Why is this work significant?
• How does this work contribute to the field?
• What are an alternative explanations for the phenomena observed?
• How did we arrive at the conclusions?
• Why does the author believe that the conclusions are correct?
• What is the source information?
• What assumptions have been made?
• What is missing from the article?
• What happens if the conclusions are incorrect?
• What is my bias as a reader?
• What is my perception used to create my perspective?

References

1. Hart, C. (2018). Doing a literature review: Releasing the research imagination (2nd edition.). SAGE Publications.

See Also

• Fisher Technique: Critical Reading