Intended to equip research consumers with the tools needed to identify errors in others' research and to reduce them to a minimum in their own work. Meltzoff (emeritus, psychology, California School of Professional Psychology) provides a view of the finished research project and how to assess it as well as 16 sample journal articles that have been intentionally written with flaws to test the reader's critical skills. Each of these articles is accompanied by a commentary that points out the errors of omission and of commission, of logic and of procedure that have been slipped in. Intended for researchers at all levels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.