Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
Week 4: Scholarship and the Walden Library
Graduate education at Walden requires you to think critically about what you read and to apply principles of scholarly writing to communicate your ideas. During your studies, you will be asked to locate and retrieve peer-reviewed articles—materials that have met high academic criteria—and to cite them in papers that you write. However, not all literature is created equal. Thus, you must learn to assess the credibility of all resources you wish to use as you hone your research skills.
This week, you explore the Walden Library and consider the differences between peer-reviewed research evidence and non-peer reviewed evidence. In addition, you continue your examination of effective scholarly writing as you analyze writing in terms of its purpose, audience, bias, and quality of evidence.
Looking Ahead: In Week 5 you will develop a Professional Development Plan in which you consider your professional goals. You are advised to look ahead and begin working on that Assignment during this week.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
• Evaluate research databases in the Walden Library
• Analyze a peer-reviewed article in terms of its purpose, audience, presence of bias, and quality of evidence
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Discussion: Using the Walden Library
Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use the 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.
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 is of particular interest to you.
• Identify the database that you used to search for a peer-reviewed article in your area of practice and interest.
• Reflect on your experience with searching the database. Did you note any difficulties when searching for an article? What steps/strategies did you find helpful for locating a peer-reviewed article? Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Would you recommend this database?
• Once you have select your peer-reviewed article, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses in terms of scholarly writing, bias, opinion, quality of evidence, and appropriateness to its target audience.
By Day 3
Post a brief summary of your peer-reviewed article, the database you located your article in, your database searching experience, key words utilized in the search, and analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Support your Discussion assignment with specific resources used in its preparation using APA formatting. You are asked to provide a reference for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.
By Day 6
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days in one or more of the following ways:
• Offer insights or strategies for locating research articles using the Walden Library.
• Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
• Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
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