Exploring Your Area Of Interest

Review the scholarly literature within the field of your program specialization related to your proposed (or School-approved) dissertation topic. Analyze the reviewed literature to determine what is already known about your proposed (or School-approved) dissertation topic and what remains unknown. Synthesize your findings and evaluate how a study on your proposed (or School-approved) dissertation topic could be designed to advance the scholarly research in this area while maintaining ethical research requirements.

In the course study program of the Cornerstone class, I learned how to perform research using the appropriate article research tools. Some of these tools are the school’s library, Google Scholar search engine, and websites that reside in the domain of .Gov, .Edu, .Net. Furthermore, I learned the value of submitting my third draft to E-tutoring, and also use my teacher’s invaluable

The purpose of this assignment is to explore the appropriate steps to take in order to successfully research topics in the counseling field. Research helps explains things in a more detailed and practical sense. We learn more through research and gain more understanding about the topic. Research is very important if you want to prove the integrity of a study especially when writing a paper. Conducting a research and citing sources will make it more believable.

Chapter 19 of Everyone’s An Author explains to the readers that it’s extremely important for you to do research on a topic. Research is searching for and gathering information, usually to answer a particular question or problem. Also, research begins as a kind of treasure hunt that provide you a stunning opportunity to investigate a subject that you care or wonder about. Finding a topic is one of the most important part for the process of your researching. In order to start your research effectively, you should find a topic that fascinates you, consider your rhetorical situation, and do some background research.

Once you have selected your research question, review the materials in the text that can help you get started, and then begin conducting outside research using the online library, the Internet, the Wall Street Journal websites, the Economist, and so forth. From your research, create an annotated bibliography. (An annotated bibliography includes the full reference in APA format and a paragraph explaining the value of the source to your research.) This will help you both in organizing your research, and in generating your reference page at the end of the project.

Identify the topic, and describe specific research related to the topic (describe the study, sample, findings, important points from the discussion in the research – describe any variables that may influence the findings of the research). Address any key issues such as political, social, legal, and/or ethical implications the

People often come across research in everyday life or are curious about a topic and decide to conduct their own research. Identify a time you wanted to research something and explain how you performed the research and what you learned as a result. How can you apply this experience to your own academic research?

The best source to begin your search would be in my opinion scholarly searches: scholarly search include publications such as certain books and scholarly journals. Scholarly Journals are collections or articles written by scholars or academics in a field of study or by someone whom has done research in a particular field. These searches have been proven to have actual studied facts that may be used as a credible source. There is another search you can used when gathering information for assignments that is called doing a popular search. A popular search could include any research that are not scholarly, which could included but are not limited to magazines, newspaper, some website and even professional blogs. They are written by journalist or other professional in the field of study you are searching. The normally cover topic of general interest intended to inform and even entertain the general public. Popular Journals can be tricky due to the fact that you really have to be certain about your search, seeing as though popular search involve the internet and in the day and age we are in now anyone is allowed to post on the internet so the source might not be

* Select a literature search topic relevant to your practice. The topic must be sufficiently delineated in scope without being trivial. You will revisit this article in the Week Five presentation. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

This article is good because it is short and explains things that would be useful in this research. The article gives the actual wording of

This article started with discussing the reason that this research subject was chosen. The reason

Seigel was able to demonstrate in details how to search for different topics of study and how to accurately search for this information. She gives in depth instructions on how to access the library’s database to search for necessary resources. Also, she provided additional information on how to use different strategies to accurately search for information in the database. The information was delivered clearly and in a matter for everyone in the class to follow along. Furthermore, additional resources were given that the library provides for students such as different library events, workshops, and research tutorials. Finally, the most important information given was the citation resources available online in order to avoid

What search terms did you use to locate this research study to analyze? What database did you use? What was your rationale for selecting this particular study to analyze over others identified in this search results? What is the full reference for the study?

What is the purpose of the research? Discuss the type of research being conducted, e.g. applied, quantitative, etc. and explain.

Importance- Explain the importance of studying your topic. Why should we care? What is the relevance in terms of current academic study? What do current researchers/professors say about your topic? This section should include references to research that you have done during the course of this class. Be specific. Include in-text citations (MLA) or footnotes (Chicago).