Overview
This assignment focuses on methodology and the method you might use to address your topic and questions, keeping in mind that the questions should guide the method and that particular questions lend themselves to particular methods. As you find additional library articles related to your topic, focus on the methodology in use: do you see alignment among the problem, questions, and the methods chosen? Why or why not? If you had conducted this study, would you have gone about it in the same way?
Instructions
Using 10 additional articles on your potential topic, include the following in your short MS Word document:
- Summarize the articles paying particular attention to the methodology used.
- What was the identified problem?
- What questions were asked?
- What method or methods were used?
- Did the methods align with the problem and questions?
- What were the outcomes of the study?
- Would you have conducted this study in the same way? Why or why not?
- Identify ethical issues or concerns related to the topic and/or theory.
- As a scholar-practitioner, apply conventions of voice, academic tone, and discipline-specific language.
Additional Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages.
- Resources: 10 additional scholarly references including seminal. Use primary sources. Include in Reference section at the end of the paper.
- APA guidelines: When appropriate, use APA-formatted headings. Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and format. Refer to Academic WriterLinks to an external site. as needed.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 points.
Read the assignment rubrics before submitting your assignment to ensure that you meet all criteria.
Ensure you have not made any grammar, usage, and writing mechanics errors. Visit the Writing Center’s Microsoft EditorLinks to an external site. page for tips on using Microsoft Editor to support your writing.
To further strengthen your writing, use the Turnitin results to revise your work prior to submission for a course grade. For more information, visit the TurnitinLinks to an external site. Campus page.
Portfolio Prompt: Consider adding this assignment to your personal ePortfolio. This assignment demonstrates your ability to study articles on the potential methodology to address your topic and questions for your project. You will want to organize your course assignments to easily support future work on your dissertation or doctoral project and to showcase your knowledge with employers after graduation. For more information on ePortfolio, visit the Campus ePortfolio page.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Develop a scholar-practitioner identity within the discipline.
- Apply conventions of voice, academic tone, and discipline-specific language.
- Competency 3: Apply an understanding of the importance and value of scholarly discourse in writing and interactions with others.
- Explain alternatives to the approach in use based on understanding of alignment of topic, problem, questions, and methods.
- Competency 4: Integrate credible scholarly literature to support ideas and concepts with evidence into the selection of a topic appropriate for a degree program.
- Summarize articles, focused on their methodology as it relates to the potential project topic.
- Competency 7: Analyze methodologies to answer research questions in the literature.
- Analyze the alignment of problem, questions, and methods.
- Competency 8: Integrate ethics and academic integrity into the development of a researchable topic.
- Identify ethical issues or concerns related to the topic and/or theory.
- Competency 9: Write in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline during the research process ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style.
- Convey purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence in grammatically sound sentences.
- Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.