TO PREPARE YOUR ASSIGNMENT
· Review the Learning Resources, Course Announcement, and attend the visit from the librarian.
· Consider possible topics and areas of focus you may wish to pursue your dissertation. Note that you do not need to decide on your final topic now, but this Assignment will help you start exploring one possibility.
· Use the Ask a Librarian feature to connect with a librarian in your area of focus.
· Search resources related to your potential topic of focus for the dissertation.
· Choose three articles from your search results that are reliable, useful, and interesting to you. You may want to save these articles for your future work in this program.
· This Assignment is due Day 7 of Week 5, but you will need to complete your research to complete the Discussion. Please complete your research before Day 4 of Week 5 so that you can write your Discussion post.
· Adhere to a scholarly tone and follow all APA formatting guidelines.
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 5
Write a 1-page paper in which you:
· Detail the steps you took to conduct your library research.
· Describe the importance of improving and refining research skills for your prospectus process.
· Explain how your chosen articles help you better understand your potential dissertation area of focus. Having completed this research, are you still interested in this area of focus? Explain why or why not. Refer to evidence from your chosen articles to support your reflection.
RESOURCES
Required Resources: Library Research
These sources will help you find reliable and relevant research in the library, read the sources, and think critically about them.
· Walden University Library. (n.d.-b). Database search skills Links to an external site. [Interactive tutorial].
· Walden University Library. (n.d.-e). Q. How do I find databases by subject? Links to an external site.
· Walden University Library. (n.d.-d). Tutorial: Evaluating types of resources links to an external site. [Interactive tutorial].
· Walden University Library. (n.d.-c). Tutorial: Critical reading and evaluation links to an external site. [Interactive tutorial].
· Walden University Library. (n.d.-a). Ask a librarian: Ask us! Links to an external site.
Required Resources: APA Citations and Reference Lists
· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.-b). Citations: Overview.Links to an external site.
· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.-d). Reference list: Overview.Links to an external site.
· American Psychological Association. (2020). Works credited in the text. In Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed., pp. 253–278). Author. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
· Read-only pages 261–268
HUMN9001A WK5 Library Steps
Thank you for contacting the Library for help finding articles on:
LGBTQ+ individuals are subjected to discrimination in employment, healthcare, and housing.
You can do a search in the main search box on the Library website. This multi-database search tool searches many, but not all, of the Library’s databases. It is a good place to start if your topic covers many disciplines or you do not know where to start looking for articles on your topic. You also want to look at your topic as not one search but a combination of multiple searches. List your concepts (i.e., LGBTQ+, discrimination, employment, healthcare, housing) and then search three at a time. I searched LGBTQ+, discrimination, and housing.
1. From the Walden Library homepage, click on the Advanced Search link under the main search box.
2. This will open the database in a new tab. If you have not already logged in to the Walden Library databases, you will be prompted to log in with your Walden Portal username and password.
3. In the first search box, type:
LGBTQ or lesbian or gay or homosexual or bisexual or transgender or homosexual or queer
In the second search box, type:
Discrimination or prejudice or stereotype or bias or stigma
In the third search box, type:
Housing or rent* or leasing
NOTE: The asterisk tells the database to search for this root word. It will look for articles that contain renters and renting.
NOTE: Using the OR tells the database to look for either of these search terms.
NOTE: Putting quotations around words tells the database to look for these words as phrases in this order.
4. Scroll down to Limit your results. The limiters you apply will depend on your search purpose. For example, leave the Full Text checked off if this is for a weekly assignment. I will limit my search to Peer Reviewed Scholarly Journals Only in this search.
5. Under Publication date, add any date limiters. For example, I typed 2018 in the Start year box for this search. Here is a screenshot.
6. Hit the Search button, and you should get 358 results.
You can review these results to see any articles you can use. You can also try searching for different keywords. Here is a link to our Database Searching guide with more tips on how to successfully find resources in the databases:
I hope this helps with your assignment. Please let us know if you have any other questions or need additional assistance.