Problem
A. What is the "big picture" for this research?
B. Is there sufficient background to understand the research question? What information is missing?
C. Is the background presented in a logical manner?
D. Is the writing concise? How is it different from other things you have read in the past or in other classes?
E. What are the hypotheses and predictions of the authors?
F. Was there adequate explanation of the results?
G. What do the authors conclude? Do you agree with their conclusions? Why or why not?
H. Future experiments mentioned?
I. How many sources from the primary literature are cited by the authors?
J. Are sources other than primary articles cited by the authors? If so, provide an example and indicate if the source is reliable.