Professional Counseling
Professional Counseling You will write an article review, relevant to this week’s learning module and readings. You will select the article yourself by searching the UWA Library Databases. The article you choose should be a research article (has a hypothesis that is empirically tested). Pick an article relevant to a topic covered in the weekly readings. Each review is worth 20 points. The review should be 1-2 single-spaced pages in a 12-point font. It is in your best interest to submit your review before it is due so you may check your originality report and correct any spelling and grammatical errors identified by the software program. The purpose of the review is to provide students knowledge of how research is conducted and reported. The main part of your review needs to include the following information. Please comment on these aspects of the article as part of your review. Provide only the briefest summary of content. What I am most interested in is your critique and connection to weekly readings. Reference.Listed at the top of the paper in APA style. Introduction. Read the introduction carefully. The introduction should contain: A thorough literature review that establishes the nature of the problem to be addressed in the present study (the literature review is specific to the problem) The literature review is current (generally, articles within the past 5 years) A logical sequence from what we know (the literature review) to what we don’t know (the unanswered questions raised by the review and what this study intended to answer The purpose of the present study The specific hypotheses/research questions to be addressed. State the overall purpose of the paper. What was the main theme of the paper? What new ideas or information were communicated in the paper? Why was it important to publish these ideas? Methods. The methods section has three subsections. The methods sections should contain: The participants and the population they are intended to represent (are they described as well in terms of relevant demographic characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, education level, income level, etc?). The number of participants and how the participants were selected for the study A description of thetools/measuresused and research design employed. A detailed description of the procedures of the study including participant instructions and whether incentives were given. Results. The results section should contain a very thorough summary of results of all analyses. This section should include: Specific demographic characteristics of the sample A thorough narrative description of the results of all statistical tests that addressed specific hypotheses If there are tables and figures, are they also described in the text? If there are tables and figures, can they be interpreted “stand alone” (this means that they contain sufficient information Read More