UMUC WRTG391 Week 5 Discussion (dq1+dq2+dq3) Latest January 2019 Question # 00599540 Course Code : WRTG391 Subject: Communications Due on: 03/18/2019 Posted On: 03/18/2019 09:00 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.9/5

WRTG 391
7970 Advanced Research Writing

Week 5
Discussion

DQ1 Analyzing Results Research Studies

This discussion task is designed to help you analyze some
research studies on the topic on which you will be writing WA #3.

To complete this task, you find three articles through
UMUC’s OneSearch that report on research studies. Many scholarly articles are actually reports
of the findings of a research study. For this reason it should not be difficult
to find three such articles. For
example, if your topic is teleworking (which is a very general topic), you
could easily find three studies on teleworking.
If your topic is white-collar crime, you could find three studies on the
very general topic of white-collar crime.

After you find your three articles, please read over the
three articles and complete the following for each one:

list the source in APA format

list key terms in the article

describe the focus of the study

describe the methodology the author used

summarize the study’s findings

write your reflections on the article itself. Comment on whether you found the study
difficult to interpret, whether you understood the methodology, or other items
that might be of interest to your fellow classmates.

This task will help you become more familiar with finding
research studies on your topic, reading them over, gleaning the main points of
them, and summarizing their findings.
These skills will be helpful as you continue to research for WA#3.

DQ2 Developing Categories for the Literature Review

In this discussion topic, we will explore some resources
that are designed to help students understand the concept of a literature
review. Please browse these resources and then complete the discussion post
below.

the article by Ted Zorn and Nittaya Campbell,
“Improving the Writing of Literature Reviews through Literature
Integration Exercise” — this article is available in the e-reserves
section of this class. To access the
article, please take the following steps:

click Content

select Class Resources

select eReserves

select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.

in the list of items that appears, locate this article and
download it.

the tutorial from The University of North Carolina on
writing literature reviews. It is linked
to at the top of the Content for this week.

the tutorial from UMUC’s Effective Writing Center on writing
the literature review. It is linked to
at the top of the Content for this week.

Task:

After reviewing the material on the Literature Review posted
above, please return to your annotated bibliography and begin developing
“categories” to help you to organize your sources. Post one category
below and list several sources that might fill that category. Remember that
some sources may fall into more than one category. Please feel free to post
questions or concerns because your instructor wants to help you. Please respond
generously to at least two of your fellow classmates.

DQ3 Applying the Spider Diagram

You can use a spider diagram to help you to structure your
discussion of sources for writing assignment #4, the synthesis of sources essay
(literature review). The spider diagram can also help in coming up with gaps
and unanswered questions that you found as a result of writing it.

A spider diagram is a visual tool usually used for planning
your writing. However, you can also use it for evaluating and thinking about a
topic in detail.

To use the spider diagram, please print out your draft of
writing assignment #4. Then place a piece of paper in front of you and complete
the tasks listed below.

For more information on the Spider Diagram, please visit the
link at the top of this week’s Content, Spider Diagrams: How and Why They Work.

Task :

Write your idea/title/topic/thesis in the center of a piece
of paper. Draw a circle around it. For the purposes of this exercise, you will
use the topic of your Literature Review.

Draw a “leg” from the central “body” of
your Literature Review topic towards the top right hand corner of the page.
Label this “leg” with the first topic/category that you dealt with in
your Review.

Add more legs moving clockwise around the page until all the
sections have been included, with the final one being somewhere near the top
left of the page.

Now divide each “leg” up into smaller
“legs” with all the points that you made in each section. (Again work
clockwise from the top left so that the sequence of ideas is maintained).

Finally, please be sure that one section is devoted to
identifying any gaps or niches in the research literature in your synthesis of
sources essay (literature review), or WA#3.

You may have to redraw your spider diagram several times
until you find a structure that works for you. Make sure that you find a
proposal structure that suits the needs of your Niches and Gaps paper. Please
post your spider diagram below.

Respond to this discussion topic with one paragraph
describing how this task might have helped you or why it did not help you in
organizing your thoughts for WA#3.