analyze three articles

Question

 

To complete this task, you find three articles through UMUC's OneSearch that report on research studies. Many scholarly articles are actually reports of the findings of a research study. For this reason it should not be difficult to find three such articles. For example, if your topic is teleworking (which is a very general topic), you could easily find three studies on teleworking. If your topic is white-collar crime, you could find three studies on the very general topic of white-collar crime.

After you find your three articles, please read over the three articles and complete the following for each one:

list the source in APA format
list key terms in the article
describe the focus of the study
describe the methodology the author used
summarize the study's findings
write your reflections on the article itself. Comment on whether you found the study difficult to interpret, whether you understood the methodology, or other items that might be of interest to your fellow classmates.
This task will help you become more familiar with finding research studies on your topic, reading them over, gleaning the main points of them, and summarizing their findings. These skills will be helpful as you continue to research for WA#3.

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Answer 1

Take a breath here and try to separate your assignment into easier to understand chunks.

 

First: You need to log on to http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/onesearch.cfm and figure out how to run their search engine. 

 

Next: You need to decide on your research topic or subject. You don't disclose any subject area, so if the research choice is yours, go for something simple like "The Aztecs of Mexico."

 

Finally: Follow the remaining directions in your assignment. Take it slow and be thoughtful.

 

Remember that if you do a good job on this, your research for the many papers you will have to write during college (I wrote 50 or more) will be a lot simpler and more methodical.

 

Good luck. 

 

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