Research

You were assigned a chapter this week that will assist you in completing this assignment. To complete this Application:

• Review Chapter 6 in the course text, A Primer in Theory Construction.
  
• Review the Use of Theory Checklist handout to help pinpoint key elements of theory in research articles.
  

  The assignment:

• Craft a 4- to 5-page paper in which you address the following instructions and questions:
  
• Identify two key theories in your field.
  
• Identify the theorist(s) and sources of the theories (key articles or books) in your discipline.
  
• Describe the basic tenets of these theories.
  
• Analyze the relationship between the two theories that you have found.
  
• Explain why these theories are so important to your discipline and how they relate to the research that you are interested in doing.
  
• Include a reference list for all the sources you cited in this paper.
  

• Use of Theory Checklist

   

  Use the following criteria to examine the use of theory.

   

  • Does the author identify one overarching theory by name?

  • Does the author provide information about the development of this theory?

  • Does the author give examples of how the theory has been used previously?

  • Does the author advance propositions or hypotheses that are based on the theory?

  • Does the author identify the independent and dependent variables?

  • Does the author state how the independent and dependent variables are related?

  • Does the author provide a rationale for why the variables are related this way based on the logic of the theory?