Post a summary of a journal article here. Copy and paste the abstract and provide the reference. Then explain why you found this article to be interesting and state what you think the article tells us about interpersonal communication. (This is w This is the module where you post “Your Choice Article Reviews.” Your assignment is to use the library database to find three empirically based research articles. In each of the three topic areas, post the abstract (cut and paste) and cite the source (reference) as a a new post. Then explain why you think the article is interesting and summarize what it tells us about interpersonal communication. After you have finished with your three articles, go back to any or all of the three places for posting and reply to a total of at least five other people’s posts.here you post the first of three articles.) (Don’t forget to comment on at least five other posts.)
Parts of a typical scientific journal article
Title: Aims to tell the reader what the research is about
Abstract: This is a short summary of the paper that includes the focus, the methods used, the findings, and the conclusion. It is aimed at helping researcher determine the relevance of the research to their research interests.
Introduction: Explains why the research is significant, provides background information and/or explanation of the theories used, discusses previous research, and explains how the current research fits into previous studies. In scientific studies, the hypotheses or research questions are often presented at the end of this section.
Method: This part of the paper explains the method used and the procedures followed. In a scientific study the method section explains the experimental design and may justify the choices that were made in the study.
Results: This section explains the findings of the study. It attempts to answer the research questions. In scientific studies, this section generally uses a statistical analysis to determine the answers.
Discussion: This section explains the implications of the findings. The researcher explains why s/he thinks the results were obtained, suggests what the results mean, and points out any problems with the design that were uncovered in the research.
Conclusion: This section provides a summary of the research and offers suggestions for conducting future research on the topic.
Research strategies.
Using the library databases.
Identify a topic and/or construct a research question.
I am interested in finding out more about the topic of divorce.
I want to know the best way to have a first conversation with a spouse about getting a divorce.
Select a library search engine that provides the kind of journals you need (like Academic Search Complete, JSTOR or PsycArticle).
In Academic Search Complete, click on Choose Databases. Consider limiting the search to specific databases (Communication and Mass Media Complete, ERIC, Education Full Text, Health Source, Humanities Full Text, PsychArticles, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, PsycInfo, Violence and Abuse Abstracts).
Go to advanced search. Consider the amount of time you have. If time is short, limit the search to full text articles. Limit the search to professional journals. If you want only recent information, then set the dates.
If you know of an author or of a particular title you are looking for, then you can select an appropriate field (author, title) in the search box. If not, then think about your topic and question and identify facets. Facets are words aimed at targeting the kinds of articles you want. If you are new to researching in a particular area, then may not know how scholars write about that topic. So, you have to find facets or combinations of facets at the right level of abstraction. This will involve trial and error. For the topic above, the facets to being the search process may be: divorce interpersonal management and communication. You want to find facets and facet combinations that narrow down the number of articles to a manageable size. The order of the words is important. Divorce first will generate a different order to the list of hits than putting divorce last. If the results show thousands of hits, your search terms may be too broad. You have to adapt. The research may also show too few hits or may show hits that are not relevant. Skim the titles of the articles in the results list, and try to figure out whether to leave out some facets, add new facets, or start over with new facets.
Ebscohost provides suggested subjects (like Internet search engines) when you type in some facets, so when the word divorce is entered in the search box, subject terms are provided. See if any of those subject terms the search engine provides are related to your topic. Divorce and children is a suggested option that pops up when you enter divorce. When this subject phrase is entered, there are 49,000 results. Even though this number is large, it may help to look at the subject terms in the hits that appear below the titles. Mediation, intervention, parent training, and interpersonal relationships are found in the subject terms of some of these articles. Helpful? The subject terms identify how scholar describe the content of their articles. You may want to refine your search using combinations of subject terms.
Looking over the article titles from the initial search example, one article is a called The Good Divorce. Read the abstract of likely articles you can find on the first set of pages. See what subject terms are provided. If The Good Divorce is a relevant article, go to full text and read the articles literature review (in the introduction to the article). Jot down the authors and dates of the articles cited that seem relevant to your research question. Look at the references in all relevant articles. Youll find books as well as articles, so be sure to do your research early so you can get the books you want through interlibrary loan. Some articles you find may be too old to be full text articles or may not be in the databases you are searching. So find more than you need. Following the threads you uncover as long as they seem to be productive.
Please note that you can obtain reference information by clicking on the right button.
Once you have found one article, you can find more on that same topic or you can find other articles of interest.
Do not rely on searching the WWW for information because most of those websites lack credibility. But, if you limit your google search to edu or gov sites, you may get some ideas about who are big names in the field you are investigating or relevant theories to explore. Then go back to the library databases.
Be sure that there is an interpersonal communication dimension to each article you find.
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