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The week one scholarly journal analysis gives you the opportunity to learn to use scholarly journals for research and to analyze a scholarly journal article for content. When you have completed the APA format assignment (450-600 words), you should save your work as a Word and upload it along with the scholarly article you located as attachments in the Assignment section.NOTE: SELECT AN ARTICLE THAT WAS PUBLISHED WITHIN THE LAST TEN YEARS.
OVERVIEW:
This first assignment—like all the other assignments in this course—utilizes you topic of interest in the selection of material for research. Locate a scholarly research journal article in the APUS online library that is related to the topic you selected, and then prepare a paper that answers some basic questions related to your article. Be sure to consult the rubric associated with weekly assignments to see the grading criteria.
DETAILS:
1. Make sure to utilize your topic of interest for the course. My topic of interest is motivation. What this means is that this paper has to reference motivation at some point in the paper.
2. Find a journal article that presents scholarly research associated with the topic. At this early point in the course you are asked to “jump right in” and utilize the online library to locate an appropriate scholarly journal article that presents research concerning your topic. Note that you may access the APUS online library and get help with scholarly research from the school. You may also watch a 5-minute video produced by Dr. Rhonda Bell that walks you through the process. (If you watch Dr. Bell’s video keep in mind that it is slightly dated in terms of the online site setup. However, the essential content and approach are correct.) Here is the link to Dr. Bell’s video:
Keep in mind that scholarly research involves solving problems. If your article does not contain qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research then you do not have an appropriate research article. For the purposes of this assignment you want to intentionally find a research article that contains one of the three methods of research: qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods. The Creswell textbook will help you differentiate these three methods of research.
Save the article to your computer to have as a reference and also to attach to the professor when your paper is completed (see step 5 below).
3. Write a short paper (450-600 words) that demonstrates a brief analysis of the scholarly research article you selected. You are to write your paper in such a way as to answer the questions/issues below. However, do not include the list on your paper. Instead, let the items guide the content expressed in your paper, which should be in typical paragraph form. Because of the shortness of the assignment, several of the items may be contained in a given paragraph. Be precise and you will be concise.
· After a brief introductory sentence. Tell whether the title is appropriate to the focus of the study.
· State the problem. Is the problem clearly stated? Does the problem have a theoretical rational? How significant is the problem studied in the research?
· Is there a review of the literature? If so, is the literature relevant? Summarize (in a couple of sentences) the review of the literature.
· Fully and completely describe the research method that was used to attack and answer the problem. Was the research method used to solve the problem qualitative or quantitative, or both? What instruments were used to answer the problem? Was there a sample used? If so, how was the sample selected?
· State the hypothesis/questions or objectives. Were they stated clearly?
· Are there any probable sources of error that might influence the results of the study? If so, have they been controlled?
· What were the statistical techniques used to analyze the data? If so, were they appropriate?
· Summarize the results. How clearly were the results presented?
· What are the limitations of the study? Are they stated?
· Summarize the conclusion(s). Are the conclusions presented clearly? Does the data support the conclusions? Does the researcher over generalize the findings?
· How can the results and conclusions presented in this study be applied in your particular field of study or work environment?
4. Utilize the APA Helps as necessary in the Resources area to help you present your brief paper in APA format, which means that you need to write a Title Page and References Page separate from the body of the text of the paper (no abstract or author note are needed). On this assignment you should write the publication information about your article on the References Page (only one reference needed . . . the article you are analyzing) and then also cite the source in the body of the paper whenever you are stating facts rom the article. Avoid unsupported statements whenever possible. In many cases you will write a paragraph of text and insert a citation only once. When you direct quote, include the page number of the source, too. Some may ask why APA is so important. APA is the mode of communication of the written word in the management field. It is the due diligence of graduate management students to excel at APA.
5. Upload your paper along with the article you reviewed in the assignment section for grading. Note the Submissions Guidelines as listed in the Syllabus: The various assignments for this course should be submitted as Word attachments in the Assignment section of our virtual classroom. Each file should be named in the following manner: Last name–truncated Week Number-Assignment name (abbreviated if necessary)
For example: Smith-Wk01-Article Analysis
Please note that you should upload two items into the same assignment area: your paper and the article ( ) upon which your paper is based.
BEFORE YOU WRITE/SUBMIT YOUR PAPER . . . I highly suggest that you view the following YouTube video (if you have not already done so). It will show you how to get off on the right foot in APA formatting of your written assignments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pbUoNa5tyY&feature=related
Another must-see video has to do with plagiarism (from the lecture). Note that it was developed using MLA format instead of APA. However, the essential message is applicable to the work in this course:
