Samantha Santiaguel

Professor Kole Matheson

English 211C

4 April 2017

Methods

For my research in the IMRaD essay, I researched the topic of early intervention for

speech-language therapy. I looked at the benefits of early intervention and considered the

alternatives to speech therapy. Through the research done, I talked about the importance of

seeking speech therapy in children that show signs of a language, speech, or communication

disorder. In order to write the IMRaD essay, I conducted research through reading articles that

came from the Old Dominion University Library database. I made sure that the articles that I

pulled from the library database were peer-reviewed articles that contained the sources that they

used in their own research. Not only did I use articles from the library database, but I also

included information that I learned from my professor from my Survey Communication and

Disorders class. Along with the peer-reviewed articles and the information I learned from my

class, I included articles that I found simply from searching up my research topic on Google.

Through the process of writing the IMRaD essay, we did multiple in class writings where we

were able to think critically on our research topics. We thoroughly went through and evaluated

each of our sources and jotted down which information was valuable enough to be included into

the research paper. Class discussions also aided in the process of the essay as it helped us to

decide on the topics we were required to include into the assigned paper. Going from the Social
Justice synthesis paper to the IMRaD Research paper, I was able to carryover the learned skills

of finding primary sources and I was able to accurately use the sources within my paper.