Activity 4.1: Evidence and Analysis

Introduction

For this discussion, you will have the opportunity to review the evidence and analysis of academic research to identify and defend a solution to a community issue. Being able to identify the credibility and validity of research articles is important because these types of articles tend to provide a high level of substantive value, which in turn can assist in creating more sound arguments. You will take this discussion activity a step further by reviewing the evidence and analysis of academic articles in depth to help identify their value as supportive evidence. This will be important to you when attempting to substantiate and defend your solution for your chosen community issue in Week 7.

Initial Post Instructions

Review the Tiffin University Pfeiffer Library, Evaluation of Sources, and Using Evidence: Analysis resources and respond to the following:

Enter the Tiffin University Pfeiffer Library and locate two academic articles that focus on a potential solution to your chosen community issue.

Share the permalinks to these two library articles for your peers and instructor to review.

Review the Using Evidence: Analysis resource to help guide your understanding of the process to recognize the analysis of the evidence. This webpage also has a section on paraphrasing.

Describe your findings from the two academic articles in plain language for your audience to easily understand. Therefore, paraphrase what you observed from your analysis, as this skillset will be vital to you when presenting your solution on your community issue.

• Review the article, Research does solve real world problems and describe why these two academic articles will be vitally important when identifying and defending your potential solution to your community issue.