LOS ANGELES PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ? Home Dashboard My courses Helps APU Library Tech Support V Compose your proposal 1. Select a research topic either selected from the list below, or

a topic relevant to your profession/interest. For instance, you can consider evaluating a program or intervention relevant to your profession/job. Please note that "research" in this class is not just referring to searching what we already know (that is simply the literature review component), but actually conducting new, original research. Further, a research topic is not yet your research question. In fact, at this point, you should NOT have a research question. That comes after you complete the literature review. A general topic is appropriate, but until you know what has and has not been done and what the gap in knowledge is (known as the "research gap"), you can't identify a research question. During your next assignment (Part 2), you will complete the literature Q Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Assessments Learning Extras Resources a X LOS ANGELES PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Home Dashboard My courses Helps APU Library Tech Support During your next assignment (Part 2), you will complete the literature review process, where you will identify a gap in what we know (the research gap) and then will identify a research question from there. Potential research topics include: • Pandemics or chronic illness and mental health • Vaccinations - challenges and benefits • Bioethics of genetic diseases • Obesity and social connections / influence • Sugar addiction • Cancer clusters • Connections between socioeconomic status/social drivers of health and general health outcomes • Anxiety disorders and behavioral vs. medical treatments • Clinical trial research in humans and animals • Health implications sitting for extended periods of time • Gender and Psychological Reaction to Specific Noise Q Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Assessments Learning Extras Resources a X LOS ANGELES PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Home Dashboard My courses Helps APU Library Tech Support • Health implications sitting for extended periods of time Gender and Psychological Reaction to Specific Noise • Gender and Singer Preference • Gum Chewing and Concentration on Simple Cognitive Tasks • Influence of Positive and Negative Ads • Reaction to Violated Social Norms • Social Networking and "real life" interaction • Learning and Color Experiment • Information and Short-term Memory • Personality and Musical Preference Gender and Short-term Memory 2. Review at least six scholarly articles related to your potential research topic. Include a list of the six research articles reviewed in APA format as part of your submission. • Avoid articles that are literature reviews, as they do not provide the appropriate content to match with the methodological focus of this class. Q Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Assessments Learning Extras Resources a X LOS ANGELES PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Home Dashboard My courses Helps APU Library Tech Support 3. Select one of the scholarly works you reviewed and write an annotated bibliography for that article that informs the key points of the potential research topic. Summarize the literature by addressing the following • Author information - Who is the author? What is her/his background? Is the author qualified to write this document? • Author's purpose - What is the author's purpose in writing this literature or doing this research? • Author bias - Does the author show any biases or make assumptions upon which the rationale of the literature rests? If so, what are they? • Methodology - What methods did the author use to obtain the data? Be sure to provide strong details about their methodology, including participants, data collection methods, and analysis approach. • Author conclusion - What conclusions does the author draw? Are these conclusions specifically stated or implied? • Assessment of those conclusions - Are the conclusions justified Q Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Assessments Learning Extras Resources a X LOS ANGELES PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Home Dashboard My courses Helps APU Library Tech Support Assessment of those conclusions - Are the conclusions justified from the research or experience? Are the conclusions in sync with the original purpose of the research and supported by the data? Are the conclusions skewed by bias? • Assessment of the literature's quality and relevancy to the potential research topic - Is the work current? Does it conflict with conventional wisdom, established scholarship, government policy, etc.? How is the literature relevant to the potential research topic? Explain. o NOTE: Remember to avoid all first-person references (e.g., I, we, us) as well as personal beliefs throughout the paper. Provide an assessment of the articles and their relevance based on evidence. 4. Check your paper for proper APA formatting using the APA Student Paper Checklist (opens in a new window) Self-Check your paper for plagiarism Q Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Assessments Learning Extras Resources a X