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Purpose
This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:
Develop research questions and assertions.
Apply critical reading skills: summarize, evaluate, reflect.
Evaluate research questions.

Overview
In the first few modules of this course, you have spent significant time finding and analyzing scholarly articles related to your research question. In this assignment, you will gather additional articles, and you will begin to consider how your articles will be put to work for your own research question. How will each article help provide a foundation for your research?

Specifically, you will develop a discussion post that includes the following:

Your research question. Note that this is the time to refine your research question in response to the readings and information you have been gathering.

Your list of sources related to your research question. In the Discussion: Research Plan assignment, we asked that you read and take notes on at least five articles on your topic. In this assignment, you should include at least 5-7 additional articles, as you build your reference list.
An annotation of the article that you focused on in your Genre Analysis assignment. Your annotation should be 5-8 sentences, and in it, you should do the following:

Summarize the major components of the source. Your summary may stress specific components to different degrees, depending on your research question. Get expert-level assignment help in any subject

Evaluate the strengths and limitations of the source. If this source seems like it will be central to your review, what distinguishes it as a piece of quality research? What might be the limitations of the source (e.g., its currency, method, study population, etc.)

Reflect on the relevance of the source to your particular research question. Why is this an important source? What cues might you take from the source in your own research? Will you be following or building upon its method? Will you be answering a call for future research that it makes?
A short paragraph that addresses how this article relates to other literature on your topic. In this paragraph, you should:
Draw connections between this article and at least two other sources from your list.
Consider how the aim, method, or findings compare with those of other research articles.
Consider the source chronologically - what earlier work made this research possible? What research followed it? To help you answer these chronological questions, you might consider the work's citation trail. Consider obtaining and examining the sources that the given work cites, or what research has cited the work since its publication. You may want to use the Cited By tool in Google Scholar.Links to an external site.
Consider: In what way does this article follow from, expand on, diverge from, or resemble other work?
A reflection of your progress toward developing your research components. Revisit the ‘components of engaged scholarship research' discussed in the Discussion: Research Area Exploration assignment in Module 2. In addition to your research question, have you begun to address any of the other elements? If so, how? What steps do you need to take to continue developing the research components of your study?