Research Paper on Teen Violence and the Media
The idea is that you should be able to generate research questions and testable hypotheses in your research area. And if your study requires a number of subjects, make sure you have access to them.
Based on the feedback from your instructor in Module Three, choose one of your topics and revise it for this week’s journal. In your journal, make sure to include the following:
- Explanation of Topic: Based on the feedback from your instructor in Module Three, choose one of your topics, revise it, and provide a more in-depth explanation of the topic. This explanation should be around one typed page, or around 250 words. Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association’s section on writing style (pp. 65–77) to make sure you are writing clearly and concisely.
- Four Working Questions: These are the parameters you will use in evaluating debates and contributions to the field of psychology.
- Three Scholarly Sources: These are the sources you have found thus far to support your topic. Sources may include: books, scholarly journals, and primary sources. For a review of the different types of sources, click here.
This journal entry should be divided into three sections: topic, research questions, and scholarly sources.
When engaged in the research process, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information you are taking in. Sometimes writers begin to lose track of how the content they are reading will be helpful in supporting the claims they make in their papers or in addressing the research question. An annotated bibliography is one way to organize your research. This week, complete an annotated bibliography for the topic you plan to research.
You will need to include at least five peer-reviewed journal articles, with at least one article including a qualitative methodology. Utilize the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for this assignment. Chapter 7 explains different types of references, and Chapter 6 discusses how to cite sources. The Shapiro Library’s Psychology Library Guide is a great place to begin the research process.
Review the Annotated Bibliography Example document, found in the Module Resources folder, for help with the creation of an annotated bibliography. You may want to review the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document for a description of the final project requirements.
Your final literature review is due this week. Be sure that your review not only summarizes the articles you read but also critiques them from a methodological and ethical standpoint, integrates them, draws conclusions from the totality of the work, identifies key gaps in the literature, and suggests extensions for future work.
