Category: Research methods

As a recent BSN graduate, you sign-up to join a journal club on your clinical unit. The journal club serves as a collective effort to remain current with the literature. The purpose of the journal club is to provide a strategy for evaluating current research and translating it to nursing practice. The facilitator of the journal club has asked you to select, critically appraise, and present your findings at the next meeting. Since this is your first time presenting, the facilitator provides a worksheet to guide you through the process.
Instructions
Select one current nursing research article that may be translated into evidence-based practice. Review the article and complete the worksheet provided. Your analysis will include the required elements of the research process and will begin the evaluation phase of appraising the literature.
Identify the steps or elements of the study
Determine the strengths and limitations of the research study
Evaluate the credibility and meaning of the study findings.
Give details of each outlined.

Using the assigned readings, the qualitative template, and your previous coursework, detail your proposed qualitative dissertation research topic. Include the following components with your topic: 1) Title, 2) Purpose statement (follow the qualitative template guidelines), 3) Problem statement, and 4) Research questions. 
Please see the attached for additional instrucitons, previous final draft to help with discussion and template. 

The course is actually research design, however, I was unable to choose that as my 
subject. 
The assignment requires you to watch 4 short video clips. After watching the clips, you will 
need to identify the independent and dependent variable, a minimum of one 
confounding variable/ variables, and how the confounding variables affect the depedent and indepdent variables. You will need to do this for each video clip. Please use complete sentences 
Here are the link: 

In this research methods II class, the final introduction to my thesis, research paper needs to be revised and edited with possible corrections based on the instuctors feedback, and the second hypothesis to be more clear and consise . Attached is an example paper of a good thesis introduction to follow . Attached is also my intro paper that needs the editing. 
THIS PAPER IS ONLY ALLOWED TO HAVE EMPIRICAL RESOURCES/ CITATIONS. Please check the ciations. 
INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK/ CORRECTIONS NEEDED 
Page 2: title should be at the top of the body of the text, and there should be no extra spacing between the title and the text. Also, make sure to indent your first paragraph. 
Remember, we need to avoid language like “research has proven” – the word proven means that the final word on the matter has been said, and that’s never the case in science. “shown” would be a better word here. 
The (2010) citation in the first paragraph has no author attached to it? 
In general, your intro paragraph is quite lengthy – I recommend focusing on just the main point(s) you intend to cover to orient the reader quickly. 
The second paragraph on page 3 reads as a bit redundant, given everything you covered in the intro paragraph. Extra space before the “Literature Review” heading. Remember to keep the whole document double-spaced. 
Also, second-level headings, like on page 3, should be left-justified. 
The literature review’s first paragraph touches briefly on Walker’s work, and then immediately pivots to discussing other studies. They’re never addressed again. Was that intentional? It reads as a pretty abrupt shift in topic. 
You don’t need to cite the same source in back-to-back sentences (as with LIchtenthal & Cruess on page 4). As long as it is clear to the reader that you’re still discussing the previously-cited work, you’ll be fine citing them just once. 
The Psychological Impact of Bereavement subsection would benefit from some paragraph breaks. And I’m not entirely following the organization of what’s there – you seem to change focus when you introduce the Valentine study, but then return to Lichtenthal? 
Physical Health Consequences and Positive Adjustment and Personal Growth sections should also be a second-level heading, and thus left-justified. 
“in a big way” (pg 5) – too informal for scholarly writing. 
And why do you say “we shall work on written exercises”? Who is we? 
Hypotheses are good, but I’d recommend some rewording.  
H1: grieving university students receiving a targeted grief support program will demonstrate better emotional, physical, and academic outcomes compared with those who do not receive support. 
I’m a little unclear on H2 – is this a component of the targeted grief support program? 
References: 
need to use hanging indentations for all. 
only the first word and proper nouns get capitalized in article titles. 
journal titles and volume #s should be italicized. 
Nice work overall! 

TOPIC-  Gender roles and stereotypes in the workplace! (STAY ON THIS TOPIC & THIS TOPIC ONLY)
Directions
(THIS IS IMPORTANT) There needs to be a quantitative component to your methodology and analysis (see proposal instructions). Be sure to outline the descriptive and inferential statistics you will utilize and why.
FEEDBACK FROM PROFESSOR REGARDING WHAT I ALREADY HAVE
I WOULD NEED THE ASSIGNMENT TO BE FIXED BASED ON THIS FEEDBACK
The Planned Analysis section needs to explain specifically which
descriptive statistics (e.g. mean, median, standard deviation) and inferential
tests (e.g. t-test, ANVOA) will be conducted to analyze your data. This should
be written in the context of your experimental design so it is clear how the
tests are appropriate to your specific experimental approach. Remember, you
need to have a quantitative component to the methods and analysis. The Planned
Methods section also was not clear as written in your previous draft, first because
it did not follow logically from the literature you reviewed in the
Introduction. The Introduction discusses gender roles and stereotypes in the
workplace, but the methods are centered around gender stereotyping of infants
by adolescents. Everything needs to connect logically.
PLEASE ONLY EDIT TO THE ASSIGNMENT I ALREADY WORKED ON (WHICH IS NAMED “MY RESEARCH PROPOSAL”
MAKE CHANGES IF YOU NEED TO BUT PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC!!
In this assignment you will work on these parts

I wrote this seminar, but the doctor in the university had comments about it, you can see the comments in the file, so if you could do the appropriate editing as possible you can, thank you 

Narrow your interest topics by using the tips we just learned this week. For this week’s homework choose one subfield that you are the most interested in and develop a list of research topics that you find interesting within it. In less than on page (single spaced, 11pt arial):
1. List your subfield of interest, and find 2 professors doing research related this topic. Choose ONE project that interests you the most from each professor’s research. BRIEFLY answer the following questions:
List the 2 professors and their departments, a URL of their website, and provide the name of their research project that you find most interesting (if you are not using your own words to give a name to the project, then use quotes and provide a citation)
For each project describe why you find interesting.  How does it intersect with your interests, strengths, priorities that you identified in the assessments from HW 3/4?
Describe the skills you might want to learn if you worked on this project. Why are you interested to acquire these skills, and is there anywhere else in your major curriculum that you could get them?
What experience do you already have that might be useful to the professor if you worked for them (classes you took, previous work, your personal traits)
Do not exceed one page total. Single space, no smaller than 11 pt arial font. Also include the names of the professors and URLs for the web sites or papers describing the project.  Submit as .doc, .docx file. Format as 4 numbered sections/paragraphs each addressing one of the numbered items above. All 4 sections combined must fit within the page limits.
WARNING: zero tolerance for plagiarism!  Be sure you are not copying from any websites or other sources! If the writing is too hard to understand, choose another source! If all of the work of the professor you chose is too hard to understand and summarize in your own words, pick another professor. Remember, these are potential professors you might like to work for.  If you cannot understand what they do, they might not be a good choice for you! 
If any evidence of plagiarism is found, even half a sentence, you will receive a zero on the assignment and referral to SJA. If you are not sure what counts as plagiarism, review the video from the Course Basics module and the readings on plagiarism. If any part of your work partly copies a published work, including the internet, that is plagiarism.  Do not use inappropriate quoting to substitute for putting things in your own words. Big Tip for avoiding plagiarism: Read the source material, put it away, and write from your understanding of the material in your own words.

Checklist for Research paper
Format
I Have…
1.      Used Times New Roman 12, Ariel 11 or a similar reasonable font and double spaced.
2.      A title page  that plainly states my name, the title, my teacher’s name and the date centered in the middle of the page
3.      Page numbers centered at the bottom of each page
4.      Indented each and every paragraph.
5.      Titled my works cited page “Works Cited” and centered it at the top of the page
6.      Arranged my entries in alphabetical order by author’s last name and used a hanging indent
References
7.      Placed all direct quotations in quotation marks
8.       At least 4 direct quotations in my paper
9.      Placed a citation that includes a page number at the end of every quotation from a paginated source
10.  Mentioned the name of the author either in the text or in the citation of every quotation.
11.  At least 4 paraphrased references.
12.  Placed a citation that includes a page number at the end of every paraphrase from a paginated source
13.  Mentioned the name of the author either in the text or in the citation of every piece of information gleaned from a source.
Organization
14.  The paper starts with a hook or funnel.
15.  At the end of the first paragraph, there is a clear thesis statement that makes the main idea of the paper plain and gives an idea of the structure.
16.  Every paragraph is connected to the thesis.
17.  Each paragraph has a clear topic sentence.
18.  Each paragraph uses appropriate transitions to connect and distinguish ideas
19.  Each paragraph is about one and only one topic.
20.  Each paragraph is supported by arguments and research
Editing
21.  Looked at each sentence to determine if it is complete and not a run-on or comma splice.
22.  Checked my capitalization including in all titles
23.  Italicized the name of books and full-length plays
24.  Placed story and poem titles in quotation marks
25.  Reread carefully for clarity and correctness
26.  Paid careful attention to the spell check on my computer to make sure I have no mistakes
27. Eliminated “you” from my whole paper
28. Eliminated fluffy or repetitive sentences
29. Integrated all of my quotations and taken special care not to create comma splices in the process.
For Final draft:
I have included a revision checklist based on the feedback from draft 1:
I have responded to each of the suggestions made on draft one by making substantive changes

a) Discuss your variables and measurements in terms of validity concerns. That is, how do you evaluate their face validity/criterion-related validity/construct validity/content validity?
b) Sampling: -Who is the population and the sample in this research? Provide the rationale for the number of subjects for the study. Discuss this in terms of generalizability of your findings.
c) In order to create a representative sample, which type of sampling method do you think would be a good fit to your research, a) non-probability sampling, or b) probability sampling? Or both?
d) What specific type of either non-probability or probability sampling would you choose?
*NO PLAGIARISM
*NO AI USE
*PLEASE FOLLOW EACH STEP!
– Topic is about Social Anxiety Disorder
*Two articles are uploaded but you can use others if you’d like and if it makes sense for the assignment, but it has to be from a realiable source

The course is actually a research design course, however, I was unable to list that as the 
subject. 
To complete the assignment, you must watch 4 short video clips. For each video clip, 
identify the indepedent variable, dependent variable, a minimum of one confounding 
variable and how it related to the Independent and dependent variable, and how the  
confounding variables could affect the conclusions. 
Here are the links to the following videos: