What Happens During the Second Step of the Quantitative Critical

What happens during the second step of the quantitative critical appraisal process, in the case in which the reader determines study strengths and weaknesses of a particularly weak research report?

A) The reader discovers what elements of the study are in what locations of the report.
B) The reader constructs a global appraisal of the research's lack of rigor.
C) The reader's task is to analyze the quality of the individual parts of a research report. This inevitably produces an impression not only of what the research did not do, but also what should have been done.
D) The reader is required to examine each part minutely; this leads to an appreciation of what the researcher did well.
E) The reader evaluates the goodness of the study.