Week 3 Discussion post and Assignment
Week 3 Discussion Post and Assignment
Discussion post due 7/12
Discussion: Using the Walden Library
Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. As you search the research literature, it is important to use resources that are peer-reviewed and from scholarly journals. You may already have some favorite online resources and databases that you use or have found useful in the past. For this Discussion, you explore databases available through the Walden Library.
Note : Unless otherwise noted, initial postings to Discussions are due on or before Day 3, and response postings are due on or before Day 6. You are required to participate in the Discussion on at least three different days (a different day for main post and each response). It is important to adhere to the weekly time frame to allow others ample time to respond to your posting. In addition, you are expected to respond to questions directed toward your own initial posting in a timely manner.
To Prepare:
· Review the information presented in the Learning Resources for using the Walden Library, searching the databases, and evaluating online resources.
· Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area and interests you.
By Day 3
Post the following:
Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not.
Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 3: Research Analysis
Assignment Due 7/17
Architect Daniel Libeskind is credited with saying “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.” The suggestion is that his work does not copy the efforts of others but relies on it.
Understanding the work of others is critically important to new work. Contributions to the nursing body of knowledge can happen when you are able to analyze and articulate the efforts of previous research. Research analysis skills are therefore critical tools for your toolbox.
In this Assignment, you will locate relevant existing research. You also will analyze this research using a tool helpful for analysis.
To Prepare:
· Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources this week's Learning Resources in support of locating and analyzing research.
· Use the Walden Library to identify and read one peer-reviewed research article focused on a topic in your specialty field that interests you.
· Review the article you selected and reflect on the professional practice use of theories/concepts described by the article.
The Assignment:
Using the “Week 3 | Part 3” section of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template presented in the Resources, conduct an analysis of the elements of the research article you identified. Be sure to include the following:
· Your topic of interest.
· A correctly formatted APA citation of the article you selected, along with link or search details.
· Identify a professional practice use of the theories/concepts presented in the article.
· Analysis of the article using the “Research Analysis Matrix” section of the template
· Write a 1-paragraph justification stating whether you would recommend this article to inform professional practice.
· Write a 2- to 3-paragraph summary that you will add to your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan that includes the following:
· Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research.
· Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research.
· Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research.
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/az.php?s=19981
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/evaluating/resource-types/journals
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/instructionalmedia/researchfundamentals
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/assignments/literaturereview/synthesizing
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1750-4910.2016.tb00224.x