Your assignment is to critique a journal article. This handout will give you a few guidelines to follow as you go. But wait, what kind of a journal article is it: an empirical/research article, or a review of literature? Some of the guidelines offered here will apply to critiques of all kinds of articles, but each type of article may provoke questions that are especially pertinent to that type and no other. Read on.
First of all, for any type of journal article your critique should include some basic information:

Name(s) of the author(s)
Title of article
Title of journal, volume number, date, month and page numbers
Statement of the problem or issue discussed
The author's purpose, approach or methods, hypothesis, and major conclusions.
a) True
b) False