California National University Fitness Trackers and Health Paper Research, scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles Source-selection checklist: This assi

California National University Fitness Trackers and Health Paper Research, scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles

Source-selection checklist:

This assignment requires you to engage with specialist sources–specifically, peer-reviewed journal articles. If a source you’ve found is a peer-reviewed journal article, you should be able to answer “yes” to all of the questions below:

? CONTENT
Does the source read like a scholarly article? (If it sounds more like a news article or a review, it’s probably not a scholarly article.)

? CITATIONS/REFERENCES
Does the article include in-text citations and end references? Is the Reference list fairly substantial (i.e., more than just a handful of citations)?

? CREDENTIALS
Is the author’s institutional affiliation noted? (For example, does a university or government email address accompany the byline? Or is there a bio that explains the author’s area/s of expertise?)

? PEER-REVIEWED
Is the journal listed in Ulrichsweb as peer-reviewed? (For a review of how to use Ulrichsweb, see the Journal Databases Activity. Remember that you search Ulrichsweb by journal title, not by article title.) 400-600 words. 4-6 entries; about 60-120 words per source .
Purpose/goals of the assignment:
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develop your ability to conduct scholarly research and relate the results of this research to a specific inquiry
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develop your ability to translate specialist information into non-specialist language
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draft building blocks for the final report
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practice APA citation style (or MLA if you are majoring in a humanities field)
Assignment Introduction:
Answering a research question involves seeking out and processing information that helps you
answer that question. This is true whether you are researching insurance plans or conducting
academic research. In developing the Library Research Report, you will seek out scholarly
articles relevant to your research question, extracting ideas from them that you will later
synthesize into a final report (i.e., the final version of your project) and an answer–however
tentative–to your research question.
On its face, the library research report may seem to resemble what is sometimes called an
“annotated bibliography.” Please note, however, that your goal in developing this report is not
simply to summarize sources. As you write your summaries, you will be producing “building
blocks” for the first draft of your Research Project . This means that you should be
summarizing only content that is directly relevant to your research question. Your writing should
also be clear and accessible to non-specialist readers.
Assignment Specifications
Your finished Library Research Report should include:
?(You can follow strict APA if you’d like and include a separate title page, but this is not
required.)
?Your research question (at the top of the report)
?Complete and correct citations for 4-6 scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles accessed through
NU Library databases. A 60-120 word paragraph on each source that answers the question

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