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Jones Short Article Assignment
In this class we coved Defining Research, developing a Research Question, Scientific Method, Reasoning and Hypotheses, Choosing Resources and Writing with Intelligence, Research Approaches, and writing a Short Article or Essay. In this essay I will try to touch on each one of these learning objectives.
What is research? Research is defined as the systematic process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information to increase out understanding of the topic in which we are concerned. (Leedy & Ormrod, 2005) Research is not one-dimensional, however the reasons that people conduct research are not the same. Research can be a simple search for data and facts to answer basic questions. Research starts with a problem or a question. People have questions about every aspect of their life, and it takes a question to begin the process toward find the answer that you are looking for. When you are conducting research you have to have a plan. Finding the answer to the information you are looking for requires clear goals and a strategy for accomplishing the required steps to finding the information. Once you have formed your question of interest and begin to make basic inquiries about a subject, the nest step is to a basic guess about the outcome, or hypothesis, based on an assumption of the facts known. Once all the data is collected, you must interpret it. Not everyone who performs research see data the same way because the, hypothesis, research question, they type of data collected, and even belief systems affect interpretation of the data despite intention to remain scientific. (Leedy & Ormrod, 2005, p. 2-10)
When developing a research question, you would want to begin with a question that others want to answer, or you could formulate a question that add to an existing body of knowledge. Once you have found a topic, a good research question must be clear, focus, concise, complex, and arguable. These elements are important because the question provides the path for searching for information that will lead eventually to a conclusion.
One might ask himself, what exactly is a scientific method? Traditionally, the scientific method is a means by which you can gain insight into what was previously unknown using a standardized set of techniques for building scientific knowledge, such as how to identify a problem, posit a hypothesis, gather data and interpret results and, finally, draw conclusions. (WEEK 3: Scientific Method, Reasoning and Hypotheses Lesson , n.d.) Inductive reasoning begins, not with an established truth or premise, but with an observation. In inductive reasoning prople can use observations of specific events to draw conclusions. You can observe an event of interest and record the observations. After the study of observations, you will notice a pattern or regularity in the data and develop a theory to explain when the patters happen. (WEEK 3: Scientific Method, Reasoning and Hypotheses Lesson , n.d.) A hypothesis is a proposition, or set of propositions, se forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide an investigation or accepted as highly probable in the light of established. ("Hypothesis," n.d.)
Choosing resources and writing with intelligence will require you to preview the text before reading it. Previewing will enable you to get a sense of what the text is all about and how its organized before reading it closely. Contextualize your text in its historical, biographical, and cultural context. When you read a text, you read it through the lens of your own experience. You understanding of the words on the page and their significance is informed by what you have come to know and value from living in a particular time and place. But the text you read were all written in the past sometimes in a radically different time and place. To read critically you need to contextualize, to recognized the differences between your contemporary values and attitudes and those represented in the text. ("7 critical reading strategies," n.d) Questioning to understand and remember is designed to help you understand a reading and respond to it more fully, and often this technique works. When you need to understand and use new information though it is most beneficial if you write the questions as you read the text for the first time. ("7 critical reading strategies," n.d) Reflecting on challenges to your beliefs and values, mark an X in the margin you feel a personal challenge to your attitudes, beliefs, or status. ("7 critical reading strategies," n.d) Outlining and summarizing are helpful strategies for understand the content and structure of a reading selection. The key to both outing and summarizing is being able to distinguish between the main ideas and the supporting ideas and examples. ("7 critical reading strategies," n.d) Evaluating an argument as a critical reader, you should not accept anything on face value but to recognized every assertion as an argument that must be carefully evaluated. Writing with intelligence will require you to communicate your ideas through writing and your ability to write effectively. ("Week 4: choosing resources and writing with intelligence lesson," n.d) Clarity is the most important element of writing effectively. Choose your words and phrases carefully to ensure that you communicate exactly what you mean, not some vague approximation of your idea. Keep you focus and try not to write everything you know about a given subject, write with structure and use transitions to move from one line thought to another. Transitions recap the idea from the previous section and shift the direction of thought. ("Week 4: choosing resources and writing with intelligence lesson," n.d)
There are two popular research approaches Quantitative and Qualitative. Quantitative Research approach method commonly use numbers and analyze data to make inferenes about what they mean in a research problem. Qualitative research approaches are based on the examination, analysis, and interpretation of observations and rely on human interaction and interpretation to make conclusions about relationships, patterns of behavior and how and why humans act as they do. ("Week 5 research approaches," n.d)
In Conclusion, in the overall class along with the practice from several writing assignments, the student should be able to develop a question about a given topic, develop research thesis and find sources related to the questions that the student want answers to. Evaluate those sources. The student should begin writing summaries and paragraphs and building the draft. Make sure that all resources are documented, proof read and revise if necessary. Comment by Dr. Monique Maldonado: Good work!
References
7 Critical reading strategies. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.salisbury.edu/counseling/new/7_critical_reading_strategies.html
Hypothesis. (n.d.). In Hypotheses. Retrieved from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypothesis
Leedy, P. D., & Ormrod, J. E. (2005). Practical research : planning and design (8th ed.). Retrieved from http://www.worldcat.org/title/practical-research-planning-and-design/oclc/881418311?referer=di&ht=edition
Scientific method, reasoning and hypotheses. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://edge.apus.edu/portal/site/333839/page/99a1abb8-77b8-4096-82f5-b0ce89d6be31
Week 4: choosing resources and writing with intelligence lesson. (n.d). In Week 4: choosing resources and writing with intelligence lesson. Retrieved from https://edge.apus.edu/portal/site/333839/page/99a1abb8-77b8-4096-82f5-b0ce89d6be31
Week 5 research approaches. (n.d). In Research approaches. Retrieved from https://edge.apus.edu/portal/site/333839/page/99a1abb8-77b8-4096-82f5-b0ce89d6be31
