Psychological impact of disasters on children Discussion
Psychological impact of disasters on children Discussion
This week we are going to focus on finding reputable articles for the Literature Review section of your proposal. The literature review is the proposal’s foundation, indicating to the reader your critical analysis of the problem you have chosen to study. You are establishing the currently accepted facts of the situation you have chosen to study, tracing the determination of those facts and the unanswered questions to culminate in your study hypothesis or specific concern (qualitative studies).
You will choose an area of Disaster Management to build your proposal around. Know that this initial portion is often re-iterative. In other words, you may start and discard multiple ideas before you settle on a question you can answer with your study, building on the prior body of knowledge.
Your first installment will be five peer-reviewed academic or scientific papers of recent publication (five to ten years old) that you will locate, read, analyze, and annotate.
A key component of a research proposal is a review of the literature. You need to establish what is known and what is unknown about your chosen topic. Every CHOICE you make in the research project design needs to be supported by ‘grounding’ in the existent body of accepted knowledge, thus review and citations of the literature related to methods.
an annotated bibliography of a minimum of five (5) papers relating to your chosen topic, research question, and general methods you anticipate utilizing.
You can use the link below to start searching the disaster literature.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument
