Category: Research & Summaries

For each article, use your own words to summarize (no copy/paste)
• Purpose, background, implication of study
• Methods – sampling, research design, Statistical analysis, instrument/questionnaire
• Results – significant findings
• Conclusion/limitation of the study
Author(s): Ulrich, R. S. & Zimring, C. M.
Year: 2004
Article Title: The Role of the Physical Environment in the Hospital of the 21st Century: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
Journal Title: The Center for Health Design Journal
Volume Number: 22
Page Number: 3-24
Abstract: This article explores the significance of thoughtful design in healthcare environments and its impact on patients, staff, and visitors. It emphasizes the role of the physical environment in promoting healing, reducing stress, and enhancing overall well-being within healthcare facilities. By integrating evidence-based design principles, architects and healthcare professionals can create environments that positively influence daily experiences and outcomes.
Resource
1.https://www.healthdesign.org/sites/default/files/Role%20Physical%20Environ%20in%20the%2021st%20Century%20Hospital_0.pdf

Leading research question: What are the socio-economic and environmental impacts of transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources?
Overview
This project asks you to examine an issue from a multitude of perspectives by compiling research into an annotated bibliography and analyzing your findings in a literature review. Through this project, you will learn how to:
Refine broad topics into guided, specific research questions
Conduct, organize, and cite academic research using scholarly databases and publicly available texts
Use Generative AI tools to assist with scholarly reading comprehension and analysis
Analyze varying sources to form a holistic view of a specific social issue
Concisely summarize all sources into a literature review
This is a research-intensive project designed to sharpen your critical thinking skills and provide a basis for future research and analysis tasks you will undertake throughout college and beyond. The process of formulating a research question, conducting and organizing extensive research, and analyzing your findings transfers directly to almost all professional fields. The research you do in this unit will directly benefit your Unit 3 project.
Minimum Requirements
Annotated bibliography with:10-12 total sources, properly cited in MLA (see the ASU Citation guide for help)5+ academic, scholarly, or peer-reviewed sources
150–300 word annotation for each source
1–2 page literature review
Submitted in 12-point Times New Roman font
Submitted to Canvas before class on the assigned due date
Project Requirements
Your issue and research question are clearly identified and defined
All sources are directly relevant to your chosen issue
All annotations identify the source’s author, audience, purpose, and findings.
All annotations identify how the source is relevant to your research question, contains personal reflections or questions about the source, and connects the source to other texts in your bibliography
Literature review contains a summary of research methods (where + how you found your sources)
Literature review synthesizes main findings from all sources (big takeaways)
Literature review contains original insights and analysis based on research and findings (what you think)
Literature review acknowledges any biases, shortcomings, unanswered questions, and/or future research necessary to the issue at hand
The Steps
There are several essential steps to completing this assignment. As you take these steps, you will be prepared to succeed by class activities, assigned readings, support documents, and in-class instruction.
Step 1: Pick a Topic The first step of this project is to choose a topic you are interested in or that intersects with another class or area of research you are involved in. A topic is a broad and vague area of study. Examples of topics are :
Generative AI
Environmental Justice
Computer Science
Indigenous History
Social Media
Because topics are so broad and intersect with so many other academic, social, and cultural contexts, it is difficult to conduct guided and holistic research on a topic alone. The next step is to place your topic within a specific context, creating an issue. Step 2: Turn the topic into an issue When people have differing beliefs about how we should think about or act upon a topic within a specific context, we have an issue. For example, given the topic of Generative AI, these are some contexts that present different issues:
Generative AI’s use in college classrooms
Generative AI’s impact on creative industries
Generative AI’s potential to displace human labor
Ethical development of Generative AI
Generative AI and non-English speakers
Once you’ve identified an issue you find especially interesting or relevant, you can formulate a research question to guide your research.
Step 3: Formulate a Research Question After choosing an issue, you’ll use a research question to guide your research process. A good research question should be open-ended and provide opportunities for you to engage with multiple perspectives. If your question has a yes/no answer, it’s not a research question. Here are some research questions based on the issues listed in the previous step:
How can Generative AI be incorporated into college classrooms in a way that benefits student learning and promotes critical thinking?
What actions can consumers of entertainment and media take in order to protect industry employees from being displaced by Generative AI?
What college majors are most impacted by the introduction of Generative AI into potential careers?
How can users of AI tools pressure companies developing AI to do so in ways that guarantee ethical labor practices?
How are developers of Language Learning Models utilizing data from languages other than English to guarantee linguistic equity in their tools’ training and usage?
You should also consider who your question/issue impacts (i.e., who are the stakeholders)? For example, in the research question, “How can Generative AI be incorporated into college classrooms in a way that benefits student learning and promotes critical thinking?” some stakeholders are:
College students
College faculty, including educators, administrators, and tutors
AI developers
Potential employers of college graduates
People publishing and researching in academic fields
The more specific your research question, and the more stakeholders you identify, the more guided and streamlined your research process will be.
Step 4: Conduct and organize research After you’ve formulated a specific research question, you’ll conduct research on your issue by using a variety of academic, scholarly, and publicly available sources. As you conduct your research, you will organize all of your sources into an MLA-formatted annotated bibliography. ASU Library Guides defines an annotated bibliography as “an organized list of your sources that includes additional information about the sources. This information can be descriptive, explanatory, and/or evaluative in terms of quality, relevance to your own research project, as well as explorative in how the work provides options for further research.” There are no concrete rules for what goes in an annotation, but for this project, your annotations must include:
The author(s)
The audience(s)
The text’s purpose
The text’s findings or conclusions
Any potential bias or shortcomings
Relevance to your own project/research
Any personal reflections, thoughts, or questions about the text
If possible: connections to ideas from other pieces of research
For this project, your annotated bibliography must include 10–12 total sources. At least 5 of your listed sources must be from academic, scholarly, or peer-reviewed journals. The rest may be from any credible and research-backed sources relevant to your issue. Annotations must be between 150–300 words.
Step 5: Write a literature review After you’ve finished your annotated bibliography, you will compile your findings into a literature review. A literature review is defined by the Purdue OWL as “ a document or section of a document that collects key sources on a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with each other.” Keep in mind, a literature review is more of a report on the research than an argumentative paper; you are not making and defending a claim as much as you are summarizing the research surrounding a given issue. For this project, your literature review must:
Directly state your guiding research question
Summarize where and how you conducted research
Synthesize the main findings of all your sources
Use your research to generate your own insights and analysis on the issue
Point out any flaws/biases in your research sources and process
Your literature view must be between 1–2 pages double-spaced.

You will research a current article (from the last 10 years) on brain development for children ages 0-12 years old. Your article review should be 1-3 pages in length double spaced with 12 point font. A copy of the actual article should be attached. Be aware that not everything on the Internet contains valid, research-based information. Verify that your document is from a reputable source and not someone’s opinion-based Internet blog. Please view the rubric in this folder before beginning your review. Please research how to write an article review if you are unsure about the requirements. ( I will do a $10 tip )

Dear Tutor,
Please read the below carefully before accepting to avoid conflicts and low evaluation rating.
I need you to write a Literature Review for my research with high level output consist of no less than 1500 words.
The Literature Review should include (main contents) of:
A summary of the existing body of knowledge on the research topic/ project (say last 10 years worth of work) to Show the state of the art.
Explicitly highlight what is missing in our understanding to date to establish the knowledge gap or uniqueness of the Research topic/ project (connect with the literature reviewed above).
Review of literature to extract knowledge and information that will support one or more of the objectives of the Research/ project.
In the attachment, you will find the research introduction for your reference.
References must be only from (https://scholar.google.com)
The plagiarism must be less than 5%.
Zero Artificial intelligence (AI).The Research is only about the Saudi Arabian Market (Country of Saudi Arabia)
Summary of the whole research (For your informatin only):
Involving the strategic acquisition of goods, services, and resources to support demolition projects. In these projects, the focus is on minimizing waste, reducing carbon emissions, and promoting the low energy consumption aligning with Saudi Arabia 2030 vision.
Procurement plays a vital role in sustainable demolitions by identifying strategic suppliers who adhere to sustainable practices and have a track record in successful projects. The procurement process involves careful evaluation and selection of suppliers based on their ability to meet sustainability and reliability criteria.
The challenges that will be addressed in this project are Limited availability of sustainable suppliers, limitation of resources, then we will extract the best practice to be a role model to avoid project failure. Overall, the lens of procurement in sustainable demolition projects emphasizes the importance of selecting suppliers who demonstrate a commitment to sustainable practices. By integrating environmental considerations into the procurement process, these projects aim to minimize waste, conserve resources, and promote a more sustainable built environment.
The objectives of the whole research (For your Information only):
Analyze the current procurement practices in demolishing projects.
Identify sustainable procurement principles and best practices through 3 cases of demolishing projects.
Apply a case study analysis
Evaluate the social, economic and the environmental impact of demolishing projects.
Develop sustainable procurement strategies for demolishing projects.
Propose recommendations for implementing sustainable demolishing projects

1. you have to be really specific about this APA citation pg. APA citation ( 7th edition)
Your references list should include a minimum of ten references. Six of your sources should be peer-reviewed journal articles. The other four sources can be government websites, books, or other scholarly sources. Media articles can be used but should be used sparingly. Your paper should not include no more than two media sources. You are welcome to include more than ten sources in your papers.
I will share a doc with you which you’ll see 6 peer reviewed sources that you need to cite them in APA format. after that please search for 4 other sources , it should be regarding to the topic paper. 2. lastly: can you develop a specific research question on my topic paper.

PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT – Due March 22
Working in groups of 3, students will develop a research proposal. The purpose of the research
proposal is to provide an opportunity to apply the conceptual, methodological and critical skills
learned in SWP638. Students are expected to keep in mind the Mission Statement of the School
when developing the proposal. Integrate a minimum of 12 sources that inform the proposal.
Provide a list of all sources used, in APA format. Maximum 50% sources in total from required
and/or recommended readings. The assignment should be written in the style of a research
proposal, which could, for example, be presented to a workplace supervisor for approval to
conduct the study. The assignment should be submitted by one group member via D2L, and it
must be in WORD format and not as a PDF file.
ABSTRACT – Due March 1
Each group is required to submit a 150-word abstract of their group assignment providing
details of what their topic is, what their qualitative inquiry approach will be, and how their
group positions themselves in relation to this topic. Abstracts are due no later than 5:00 pm on
March 1. Lack of submission of the abstract will lead to a 3% deduction from the final grade on
the group project. Abstracts will not be graded, but those that require further
clarification/development will be returned.
SECTIONS OF PROPOSAL:
1. Problem Statement, Purpose, & Research Objectives (400-600 words)
Drawing from a minimum of 2 sources1 , discuss the following:
● Identify a research issue and problem statement related to this issue.
● Discuss the importance and contemporary relevance of the issue and its relation to social
work practice.
● What are the potential implications and contributions of this research to social work,
social justice and social change?
● State the overall purpose of your research and outline specific objectives of your research.
● In the context of the selected topic what is the positionality of your group members? How
does this influence what you know about the topic?
2. Literature Review, Theoretical Framework, and Research Questions (1200-1500 words)
● Literature Review – Review minimum 10 sources1 (minimum of 5 sources must be sources
that each detail the process and results of a research studiy) and discuss key concepts,
methodologies and findings of research and any other sources that inform your study.
● Identify and discuss theoretical framework/s that inform the study. Draw from some of
the 10 sources used for your literature review, as well as using a minimum of 2 other
sources2 specific to your theoretical framework.
SWP638: Social Work Research Part II Group Assignment: Winter 2024
● Situate your research within your literature review and theoretical framework/s.
● Identify your research question(s).
3. Research Design (1600-2300 words)
Describe the research design in relation to the following aspects. In each of these areas
provide a rationale for the choices you made. These should be specifically described and their
strengths and weaknesses should be critically appraised. Use a minimum 10 sources1
(minimum of 5 of these sources must be peer-reviewed journal articles).
3. Research Design (continued)
● Approach of inquiry: Any of the qualitative approaches of inquiry.
● Sources of information: Discuss the sources from which you will collect data.
● Recruitment and sampling techniques: Discuss recruitment of participants including
details of how you will recruit and from where you will recruit your participants. In case
you are planning to recruit more than one group of participants discuss recruitment
strategy for all groups. Attach (as an appendix3 ) an e-mail, flyer or any other material you
plan to use for recruitment. What is your sampling strategy? What are the criteria for your
sample? What is your intended sample size?
● Data collection methods and instruments: Discuss methods of data collection and
instruments you will use for all groups of participants identified in the above section.
Attach (as an appendix2 ) all data collection instruments with the proposal.
● Data analysis and interpretation: Discuss your data analysis and interpretation approach.
● Dissemination strategy – Review the significance of research for social work practice and
consider how stakeholders would be informed of results.
4. Ethical Considerations
• Indicate the ethical considerations and limitations that could be invoked by the research
and the strategies to be used to address these issues.
5. References
List all references, in APA format
Guidelines & Endnotes
Include a Title Page for your proposal.
Use APA 7 th edition for citing and referencing material.
Minimum of 12 sources; maximum of 50% sources from required and/or recommended
readings.
SWP638: Social Work Research Part II Group Assignment: Winter 2024
Title Page, Reference List and Appendices not included in total word count.
Word limit: 3200-4400 words
Endnotes:
1 There can be (but does not have to be) overlap between these sources.
2 These sources (minimum 2 sources) used for theoretical framework must be different from the
other minimum 10 sources used; they cannot overlap.
3 Appendices are not included in word count

Document must be 5-8p, prepared using the APA style and 12-point font. Please include section headings (ex., Social and Economic Justice, Diversity), a cover page, and a reference page. The cover page should include a list of all group members.
This section of your paper will focus on Competency 3, Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic and Environmental Justice, and social work practice from a social justice perspective. This section of your paper must be 3-4 pages and include 4-5 references.
1. Review NASW ethical principles and standards that address human rights and social justice.
2. Examine Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory and consider how people experience tremendous social, economic, and/or environmental injustice when their needs are unmet. 3. Must be able to define and demonstrate an understanding of social justice and its implications for vulnerable populations.
4. Must demonstrate knowledge of distributive justice as a perspective that seeks a distributive approach to achieve social justice ( advocating for societal institutions to ensure that human rights and access to active participation and distribution of resources are extended to all.
5. Must examine the different forms of oppression as it relates to your Capstone topic (i.e racism, sexism, xenophobia, and ethnocentrism, classism, religious oppression, homophobia, biphobia, heterosexism, transgender oppression, ableism).
6. Must understand sources of power (i.e. coercive and dominant power; authority and legitimate; privileges and interdependent power.
7. Must demonstrate an understanding of using a social justice framework as social workers.
In this section, you will discuss Diversity and Differences in Practice. This section should have 2-3 pages with 3-5 references. You should include the following :
1. As it pertains to your Capstone topic, discuss and evaluate issues related to age, class, color, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation as applicable to the practice system and interventions. 2. Discuss how social workers can embrace cultural humility and demonstrate cultural sensitivity? Discuss at least 3–4 cultural competence standards.
Seprate Paper request- Document must be prepared using the APA style and 12-point font. Please include section headings (ex., Implications for Social Work Pratice), a cover page, and a reference page. The cover page should include a list of all group members.
In this section of your paper, you are required to write 1-2 total pages where you are to discuss the implications of the research you conducted in Capstone project. What did you learn? What surprises (if any) did you find in your research? What should change about how services are delivered to the population you studied? What services should remain the same? Do you think that your research could possibly change current thinking in the field? Is there anything we as social workers, need to do differently when engaging with this population? This is to be included in your final paper.
3rd separate paper request- Throughout this course, you have reviewed literature related to policies, ethics, theory, social and economic justice, and practice as it relates to a program or client system. In this Final Project, you will solidify that commitment by gathering all the following written submissions into one document and revising them as needed. (Please include a cover page at the beginning of the document and combine all of your references for each assignment into one reference page in alpha order that will be located at the end of the document).The topic is animal assisted therapy in social work practice.(examples equine therapy, animal assisted therapy involving dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, lamas, alpacas and various animals Introduction & Client System (25 points)
Human Behavior and the Social Environment & Social Welfare Policy (50 points)
Social Work Practice Models and Skills & Research and Evaluation (50 points)
Issues of Social and Economic Justice & Diversity in Practice (50 points)
Values, Ethics, and Professional Behavior (50 points) Implications for Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice (25 points)
50 additional points will be given for the following: APA style, cover page, reference list in alphabet order, citations, paper formatting, and tone of presentation of ideas that are free from bias and objective.

Research Question: Is gender an important defining factor in how people communicate with each other?
Independent Variable – Gender
Dependent Variable – Inter-Personal Communication
Utilize only approved communications journals for the proposal. A list of approved communications journals is attached
For this project, you will begin to create a pathway to original research on a communication topic of your choice. By the end of this course, you should be able to identify communication concepts and propose original research surrounding communication for both academic and proprietary purposes. This assignment has you begin your research journey by identifying a topic of interest, justifying examination of that topic, creating research questions and/or hypothesis to explore, and providing resources that can be used in your literature review assignment.
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success:
Create hypothesis/Research questions for Communication research.
Identify the variables/concepts associated with Communication research.
Compose clear conceptual definitions to identify the variables that you will discuss in future papers. To do this, you will propose a topic of interest and begin researching that topic.
Requirements
To complete this assignment, please note:
Due Date
Style and FormatCover page and reference page included
1-2 pages of work
APA format
Font: 12 point Times New Roman
Double spaced with margins per APA format
Step by Step Guide
To complete this assignment, follow these steps:
Requirement #1: Cover Page
You need an APA (7th edition) cover page. See the resources at the end of this document for guidelines on APA.
Requirement #2: Introduction
The topic proposal is the first phase of your research project. For the first part of this assignment, you will write a short introduction (1 page) on the topic/question of interest. These pages should introduce your topic. You will want to have an attention getter, justification statements, thesis and preview of your main points. Your topic proposal must focus on communication behavior. You need to make sure that there is some sort of message focused behavior being discussed. If you are unclear as to what this means, please ask! You should be using what you learned in COM 207 when you develop this first paragraph. If you did not complete COM 207 with ASU, please look into these resources. Requirement #3: Hypothesis and Conceptual definitions
After providing your introduction, please provide the following:
Preliminary research question or hypothesis. This may change as your paper develops, but please provide the RQ or H as you are currently thinking about the topic.
Conceptual definitions for all IV(s) and DV(s).
Please use third person (i.e., avoid “I”, “me”, “you”, etc.) to help get you comfortable with this type of writing.
Requirement #4: APA Reference page
After you have your topic defined, you need 6 peer-reviewed journals for your bibliography in APA format. Please use journals from the Communication discipline. An easy way to find these journals is using COMABSTRACTS through the ASU library. This resource should be helpful: Library Guide, See the list provided for approved communication articles. Approved Communication Journals List.doc
Please keep these journals recent. You should search for articles that:Help describe the problem you are studying and why it is important
Define key variables or concepts
Provide a theoretical foundation for your argument
Help establish the links in your argument/explain why you think something should happen
Describes previous research on the key variable, population, etc.
Address the same question you are interested in only in a different setting, population, etc.

MLA, 12 pt. Times New Roman
font
Film: The black knight (starring Martin Lawrence)
Requirements:
watch the film
How does the movie (story/characters) reflect one or more of themes of Arthurian legends generally? Be as specific as possible, but do not simply summarize the plot
how does the film reflect its historical period or cultural concerns of its era- from what you know, does it seem accurate or anachronistic?E.g.,does it introduce elements that are inappropriate to the time period, such as rock music in the Middle Ages, or weapons or clothing you know did not exist at the time?
Cite the movie itself (double-space, hanging indent paragraphs)

Create an Arthurian knight :MLA
Format, 12 pt. Times New Roman
font
chivalric identity -your strengths and weaknesses, your abilities, your motives, and your goals for yourself.
Assignment components:
1.Encyclopedic entry (approximately 300-500 words): This should include the “factual” information about your character- your name, moniker (the [Adjective] Knight of [Place] or Knight of the [quality, place, or thing]), where you are from, lineage, and major chivalric or courteous deeds.
2 Comparison (300-500words): write a brief comparative essay explaining how you stack up against at least two (2)of the already-established knights in the Arthurian legend. Try to use specific details about those knights garnered from your reading to contextualize your place in the legend compared to theirs. (Sir Gawain, Sir Lancelot)
3 Short story (1-3pages long): should focus on one or two of your particular adventures or tests of your knightly prowess, and include recognizably Arthurian characteristics