Bullying, Scholarly Journal Assignment help

Social Work Assignment on Bullying (Please see attached articles, one is qualitative and one is quantitative) 

I know this is long but if possible PLEASE have this done by today with in 2-3 hours! 🙂 Thank you so much!

Directions:

Scholarly
Journal Assignment

The
purpose of this assignment is to: 1) acquaint you with how to make use of
library databases to locate research articles for exploring topics that are
relevant to social work; 2) learn how to analyze and summarize research
articles; and 3) become familiar with the APA style of referencing.

First,
you will identify an area of interest of “Bullying” and locate two research
articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals that address your area of
interest. Read both articles carefully – you will be expected to thoroughly
describe and summarize the content of the article using the format presented
below:

Bullying

Complete
this Assignment as Follows:

1. 
Select
two research articles from your topic area. For this assignment, each student
will identify two different social work scholarly journals that
publish articles based upon quantitative or qualitative research methods. Then
select one article from each of these journals (two total),
reflecting the area of practice specialty focus that you have identified. One
article should present qualitative data and the other article should
present quantitative findings. For a brief chart explaining qualitative
and quantitative research, see below.

2. 
Once
you have developed an understanding of the articles, you can move on to
completing each section of the paper by answering questions about the articles
listed below. While answering the questions about each article please compare
and contrast the articles.

3. 
Be
certain that you are careful to NOT copy anything directly from the
articles without using quotation marks and proper citation (per sixth edition
of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). It
is a violation of the University Honor Code to copy directly from any source
without using quotation marks and a proper citation. You will be submitting
your assignment under SafeAssign, which is a program that will give you
information on plagiarism. Note that since you will be presenting information
on what your articles have found, it will be necessary to have proper
citations.

4. 
 Carefully proofread your work and be sure it
adheres to the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association (APA) before submitting it to the instructor.

For
each article, address the following questions:

1. Title of the Article
2. Hypothesis or Research Question

–  In your own words,
what was/were the hypothesis(es) or research questions stated in the articles?

1. Summary of Literature

–  In your own words,
briefly summarize the review of literature presented by the authors in support
of their articles. How well did the authors support their study using past
research? Were the studies cited by the authors relevant? What did you, as a
reader, learn from the review of literature? What questions remained unanswered
for you as a reader?

  2.Methodology

–  Did this article
utilize qualitative or quantitative methodology?

– How did the
researchers find participants for their study?

–  What methods did the
researchers use to gather their data (e.g. instruments, interviews?

–  Do you think the
authors described their methodology well enough for you to understand?

–  If there were parts
about the methodology that seemed unclear; what were they?

3. Results

–  What were the main
findings from the study?

–  How did the findings
support the hypothesis (es) or answer the research questions you identified
earlier in this assignment?

  4. Discussion

–  What are the main
points of the discussion?

–  Do you agree with the
authors’ interpretations/conclusions about their results? What do you agree
with? What do you disagree with?

   5. Reference Page

–  Please be sure that
you proper cite (using the APA style of referencing) the two articles that you
used for this assignment on a reference page (the last page).

See
the examples below:

Reference
Information

Correctly
cite the article following APA (6th ed.) format. Here is the format for
correctly citing a journal article (pay attention to punctuation, spacing, what
words are capitalized, what parts are italicized, etc.):

Author, A. A.,
Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of
Periodical, xx, pp-pp. doi:xx.xxxxxxx

Here
is an example of a correct APA citation for a journal article (pay attention to
punctuation, spacing, what words are capitalized, what parts are italicized,
etc.):

Smith, C. L.,
Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., Anastopoulos, A. D., & Shelton, T. L. (2004).
Predicting stability and change in toddler behavior problems: Contributions of
maternal behavior and child gender. Developmental Psychology, 40, 29-42.
doi:10.1037/0012-1649.40.1.29

Some
Features of Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research