Posted: May 17th, 2015
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Assignment 1: Develop and Apply a Personal Toolkit for Critiquing Research Articles
Activity Description
As a practice you will give articles careful review and understand all of the decisions, assumptions, and arguments the researchers made. You will put together your own complete set of questions to use in interrogating research articles.
For this assignment, review the resources mentioned for this week and put together a list of questions and strategies you will use to critically read research articles for your dissertation.
Length: 1-2 pages not including title and reference pages.
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic.
Assignment 2: Critically Read and Analyze Articles
Activity Description
Apply the list of questions and strategies you developed in the previous assignment to two articles describing research that contributes to theory in your topic area. Choose short articles (fewer than 10 pages) if possible. Submit your analysis of both articles in a single brief paper. Send your faculty member the articles or links to them. You may organize the paper simply as answers to your Assignment 1 questions. Follow APA style only for the reference list.
Length: 3-5 pages not including title and reference pages.
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
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