Graduate-Level Skills and Using Research to Expand Your Reach

Support your writing with evidence-based research.

For this Discussion, you revisit your Week 1 Discussion to integrate research on the topic. You then consider your database search process and how the research you found informs your writing and your practice.

Assignment

Post a revision of your Week 1 Discussion post that integrates at least one paraphrase with an APA citation from one peer-reviewed article from the last 5 years in the Walden Library.

Additionally, address the following prompts:

What was your process for searching for scholarly articles?

(For example: What keywords did you use, and what database did you access? Did you use the advanced search features such as Boolean operators?)

What challenges did you experience, if any?

How does this new learning complicate, enrich, or support your original discussion?

How does this new information contribute to your ability to be a stronger advanced human services professional practitioner?