critical evaluation 3

Purpose: In this assignment, you will write a critical evaluation of the paper, “Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning In” by Exley et al (2019). You will analyze the paper and relate it to the experiences of people around you.

Steps:

1. Read “Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning In”. Also read the Harvard Business Review summary of the paper here: https://hbr.org/2016/04/women- who-dont-negotiate-their-salaries-might-have-a-good-reason
2. Critically evaluate the paper. This should involve each of the following. • In one or two paragraphs, briefly summarize the paper’s primary conclusion and the evidence they use to support their hypothesis. • Assess whether the paper’s empirical results do and do not support the author’s findings. What other potential explanations are there for the empirical patterns uncovered by the authors? • Assess whether the paper’s empirical results are externally valid. That is, to what extent can the empirical results of this paper be extrapolated to other settings? Explain your reasoning.

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4. Revise your draft.

• Check: does each paragraph express one clear idea? Do you tell the reader what that idea is in a topic sentence?
• To make sure that your writing is concise and clear, take a word count of each paragraph, and then cut 10% of the words.
• Print your draft and read it out loud to help you identify spots where the language or ideas could be clearer.