please help with week 3 assignment.
For your dissertation or capstone project, you will strictly use scientific, peer-reviewed literature to investigate your topic and inform your research. But how will you know if your source is legitimate or appropriate to inform your research? Claims makers can move from popular media, such as newspapers, magazines, and emerging media platforms, and enter scientific literature to shift a social condition to a problem and bring it to the public’s attention.
As a scholar-practitioner, you will need to understand the differences between popular media and scientific literature and determine how to investigate the evidence to make a judgement about the claim or result. This will be a critical skill that can help position you as a thought leader in your field.
For this Assignment, you will use the social problem you identified in Week 2 and build on your knowledge of claims makers by comparing how the problem is depicted in empirical and non-empirical sources.
To Prepare
Conduct a search in Walden Library for at least two empirical sources. You can use sources from previous weeks. Your sources should cover the same topic area within your selected social problem.
Conduct a search in Walden Library for at least two newspaper articles. You can also use news segments from news programs. These sources should reflect the same topic area as your empirical so submit a 1- to 2-page paper that addresses the following:
· Using the empirical literature (not the newspaper articles or the news program), explain how the authors/researchers define the nature and scope of your selected social problem. Be sure to cite specific passages from your sources.
· Using the newspaper articles and/or news segments you researched, identify the
inside claims makers
. Describe how they provide credibility and legitimacy. Be sure to cite specific passages from your sources.
· Compare the evidence provided in the empirical literature with the evidence provided in the newspaper articles or news program segments. How does the evidence support the definition of the social problem?
· When is it appropriate to use nonempirical sources, such as newspaper articles or news segments, in your research? How do you judge the legitimacy of these sources?
