Academic publishing

The commencement of this venture began by reading Camille Saint-Saëns by Brian Rees , a secondary source material. Rees does an admirable effort in creating a seamless biography that places different periods of the Saint-Saëns lineage in perspective. Moreover he dedicates a few pages regarding Saint-Saëns Franco-Prussian war experience in his chapter: “Devastation, Seed Corn and Harvest.” The chapter briefly recounts the political climate of France months prior to the war and indicates various…

My research assignment became problematic due to my weakness of correctly citing my work. I think the time that I spent in the WRGT 101 class was more than helpful in terms of the knowledge that I absorbed in regards to searching and gathering material for a topic. The topic that I selected for my paper was how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Initially, at the start of the paper, I believe myself to be highly knowledgeable on the subject but I walked away from all my research with a plethora…

1. I tried to find the article using the school library online database. I first used a general database called Academic OneFile. I tried typing in the journal title, author and publication date. The article still did not come up after trying this a few times. I then decided to try using a psychology database since this is a psychology course. The first database I used was Science Direct. I tried typing in the journal title, author and publication date. No results were found when I used this…

In this Journal I am going to be reflecting about the competency 4: Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice. I will be describing from my understanding the value of a literature review and engaging in research change during the BSW program, how learning to search for data, read and use peer review articles had been for me throughout the process and finally what could I improve in order to inform the agency where in interning at Girls in the Game. During my BSW…

The hierarchy of evidence utilized to evaluate the strength of evidence for each article was the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine – Levels of Evidence table obtained from the Center for Evidenced Based Medicine (2009). The search engines and databases searched in the literature review were chosen to optimize the literature search for high quality evidence. CINAHL (Current Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is a bibliographic search database, which contains references to…

Focus primarily revolved around credible sources from academic journals. As previously mentioned, I used Dana’s feedback to expand how to educate thus introduce safe internet practices. Investigation of each of my key points showed that safe internet practices could clearly guard children from incidents against…

Research Analysis #2 1. How did you select this research study to analyze? What search terms did you use? What database did you use? What was your rationale for selecting this particular study to analyze over the others in the search results? What is the full reference for the study in APA format? In search for this article I used the One Search library data base from University of North Florida (UNF) library website. The terms used were “deaf readers learning to read”. As I strolled down the…

How to Read a Paper August 2, 2013 S. Keshav David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada keshav@uwaterloo.ca ABSTRACT Researchers spend a great deal of time reading research papers. However, this skill is rarely taught, leading to much wasted effort. This article outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers. I also describe how to use this method to do a literature survey. 4. Read the conclusions 5. Glance over…

Question 3, can yoga be an effective treatment to help improve people’s depression, was selected to further explore the complexities involved in effectively communicating research articles to peers and in a professional setting. The following article was examined and briefly summarised for discussion. Research Article Manincor et al.. (2015). Establishing key components of yoga interventions for reducing depression and anxiety, and improving well-being: a Delphi method study. BMC Complementary…

This memo will discuss how the IMRAD form, a well-known format of writing among scientists and researchers which is described in Writing in the Sciences textbook by Steven B. Katz and Ann M. Penrose. The memo will talk about the IMRAD style and how it is similar and different to a historical paper titled, “The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory” written by Henry A. Spiller, John R. Hale, and Jelle Z. De Boer. It uses some of the IMRAD concepts, however there…