Week 5 Empirical Research

Hello students hope you are all doing well,

Week 5 focuses on Empirical Research.

™Empirical - based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic (Oxford English Dictionary, 2015)
The Scientific Method has it basis on empirical research. Making calculations based on observation experience rather than just theory. Empirical research generates knowledge derived from observation or experimentation as opposed to theory™Typically, empirical research articles are written in a standardized format that outline the research study or experiment and include the following sections:•Abstract•Introduction and Literature Review•Methods•Results•Discussion or Conclusion
•References (or literature cited)

For Academic Search Premier I would recommend using Emperical research as a keyword and then in the following keyword box type your subject.

Other possible searches are "empirical evidence" or even "observation"

Using Empirical evidence as a keyword search you should see Empirical research as a keyword in bold for the articles you examine. For your assignment paragraph I would like to see in your paper what material did the authors link to empirical research? what did they observe or examine?

Possible research questions to think about for your assignment:

™What is the research study about?
What is the topic or focus?

™How is the research conducted? What is the research method used?
What did the authors conclude?

What were the findings/ results?

NOTE: You do not have to check the peer review box and you do not have to have the other keywords such as metadata or qualitative or quantitive in your article. It might pop up in your article but it is not required for the article to be used.

If you know for a fact that your article is an empirical research article you do not even have to include it as a keyword in your search. Try replacing emperical research with the word observation to see the search results.

Happy hunting!

Mr Mac

Week 4 Peer reviewed Journals

Week 4 Step by step to peer reviewed

Hello class, for week four we are examining peer-reviewed articles.
One of the class asked for a step by step so here we go! :)

Your best bet to finding these articles is either Academic Onefile or Academic Search Premier. Make sure you click the Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journals box as well as a full text box.







Peer reviewed articles are examined and analyzed for content from those within their professional field. For instance a librarian writing a scholarly article may ask other professional librarians who have written on a particular topic of the field, how the material should be written.

(Peer review box for Academic Search Premier)

Most peer reviewed articles write in an acknowledgement for those that reviewed the work. In some cases this can be found at the beginning or end of an article. If this information cannot be found examine your work for their authors and how many are apart of your citation. Many of the peer reviewed articles have more than one author and all of the authors are listed in the citation. For the CRAAP Criteria in your paragraph you might say ___, and ___ and ___ worked together to make sure this study on ___ was accurate for the field.







A screenshot of Academic OneFile with peer reviewed box and full text box checked.

Let me know by email if you are having a hard time finding sources for your subject.

Mr. Mac