CLASS ACTIVITIES

TOPIC: Finding and reviewing journal article

1. Objective:
After completing this tutorial you should be able to:
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Understand the difference between popular and scholarly journals.

Develop an effective search strategy for searching databases
Select an appropriate database for your topic
Use it to find articles on your topic.
Understand how to get the full text of an article

2. Apparatus
a. Laptop computers and internet connections
3. Task outline:
Please answer and complete all of these questions:
a. Where can I find out information about qualitative analysis of human
movement?
b. Why are journals a better source for information about research?
c. Follow these 4 steps and try to find your article of interest.
i. Step 1: Summarize your topic
ii. Step 2: Identify the keywords
iii. Step 3: Select effective search words
iv. Step 4: Combine the search words
d. List out the journals that publish qualitative analysis of human
movement research?
e. What is the general format for qualitative analysis of human movement
journal article?
f. What software can I use to organize my references?
g. Once you find a good article, please evaluate your article and in your
own words, summarize the article by indicating:
i. What was the main problem of the research?
ii. What was the purpose?
iii. How did they do the research?
iv. What are their conclusions?
4. Form a group of 3 and compare your article with your group members.
Compare and contrast the articles on the basis of the following:
a. Clarity of presentation
b. How interesting was the problem chosen
c. Do we have the equipment used by the journal

Please send in your finding and results in MyGuru Portals.

Thanks