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Preparation

Identify a research topic related to your specialization, professional life, or area of interest, and locate at least five recent (within the past five years) research articles on your selected topic.

Directions

Complete the following in 6–8 pages:

1. Begin your paper with an introduction that explains the purpose of the paper and its contents.
2. Identify and describe your research topic.
3. Synthesize your professional experience and the articles you found on your topic to justify the importance of doing research on this topic.
   • Discuss some of the limitations in the findings of the research articles you identified and how future research could add meaningful knowledge to the knowledge base.
4. Identify one or more theories used by researchers of your research topic.
   • Discuss how future research could help advance psychological theories.
5. Based on the designs used by researchers in the articles you found, discuss the research procedures that you think would be best in investigating the research topic.
6. Explain why each component of scientific merit is important in determining the quality of research.
7. End your paper with a summary and a conclusion.

Additional Requirements

• As much as possible, the assessment should be written in your own words, paraphrased and properly cited in current APA style.
  • If you need to quote, do so sparingly, and make sure you have cited quotes in current APA style.
  • Your assignments need to demonstrate your understanding of the material, not how well you can quote someone else's work.
• Write in a professional tone, without writing errors.
• Make sure your assessment is 6–8 double-spaced pages, not including the title page or references, with 1-inch margins. An abstract is not required.
• Include an APA style references section.
• Use APA style headings to organize your paper.

Must include:

Analyze how the research advances the scientific knowledge base in a selected research study.

Summarize how the selected research study contributes to research theory and the field of study.Explain the hallmarks of good research in a research study.Develop a logical conclusion of the overall scientific merit of the research study.

 

 

Some additional help:

Identifying Scholarly Resources.

• What is Scholarly?
• Primary vs. Secondary.

Defining Your Topic.

• Understanding Your Assignment.
• Selecting a Search Topic.
• Focusing Your Search Topic.
• Is My Topic Too Narrow or Too Broad?

Searching Effectively.

• Making a Research Plan.
• Selecting a Database.
• Selecting the Best Keywords.
• Building Your Search.
• Refining Your Search.

Evaluating Source Quality.

• Graduate-Level Criteria.

Reviewing the Literature and each of the linked subsections listed below explain the specific processes involved in searching the research literature:

• Preliminary Search.
  • Convert Your Topic Into a Research Question.
  • Background Research – Discover Context.
  • Gathering Articles.
  • Staying Organized & Managing Documents.
• Defining Search Strategy.
  • Executing a Search Strategy.
  • Critical Thinking.
• Cited Literature.
  • Hand-Search Individual Journals.
• Analyze Results.
• Tests and Methods Searching.
• Using Dissertations.

Attachments:

• 1509347520-Scientific Merit.docx