IDENTIFYING A RESEARCH TOPIC FOR YOUR PAPER
This assignment focuses on the identification of a proposed research topic. For this assignment, you will describe your proposed research topic and identify a school of thought that you think might align well with it. The proposed research topic you describe in this assignment will be the same topic you will use in upcoming assignments in this course and the final course assignment in Week 10. Use the resources you have recorded in the Research Log you started earlier in this course, and add sources of interest to your log that you find while working on this assignment.
INSTRUCTIONS
Write a 2–3-page paper that describes your proposed research topic. Include a cover page and reference list in addition to the 2–3 pages in your paper that address the following components.
- Identify a researchable topic appropriate for your specialization.
- Support your topic choice with research from a minimum of 3–5 resources.
- Defend your research topic as an area in your specialization needing further research.
- Relate your research topic to an appropriate school of thought.
- Develop questions to be asked that are related to the chosen topic.
- These are not questions you might ask study participants—rather, they are questions you wish to answer through the research study.
- Describe how the values and practices of the identified school of thought fit the selected topic.
References that may be helpful
Castiello D’Antonio A. (2018). Coaching psychology and positive psychology in work and organizational psychology. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 21(2), 130–150. https://doi.org/10.1037/mgr0000070.
Henley, T. B. (2019). Hergenhahn’s an introduction to the history of psychology (8th ed.). Cengage.
Titova, L., Werner, K. M., & Sheldon, K. M. (2018). Translating positive psychology. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(3), 211–214. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000170.
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