1.5 – Discussion

Peer reviewed journals are scholarly journals that publish original research or writing. According to a Cornell University website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., “The main purpose of a scholarly journal is to report on original research or experimentation in order to make such information available to the rest of the scholarly world.” Thus for this and all future assignments, be sure that the article you select is an actual research article rather than simply a literature review or general interest paper.

Go to the Hunt Library (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and use EAGLEsearch to find an article on a topic of interest that falls within the subject area(s) of your degree program. Be sure to select the “Scholarly & Peer-Review” filter option on the left of the screen (following the initial display of results). Using the research cycle in the Chapter 1 of the text, describe how the selected article outlines/describes each part of the cycle. If it is lacking in a part of the cycle, tell what is missing and what could have possibly be done to fill the gap. Your post should be approximately 500 words.

Ideally, this topic of your article is one that you may wish to conduct research on throughout the term (though this is not required).

Comment on a minimum of two other posts.

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The selected article is a cases study on how high school teachers incorporate technology in the classroom to meet the 21st-century student learning needs. This paper will investigate how this article describes the various parts of the research cycle. The first part of the research cycle entails the research questions that the article is trying to answer or the objectives of the study. From the topic, the research article is clear that the main study objective is to determine

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