Academic/Scholarly Journals
Journal Research Article Assignment
This tab reviews the assignment to locate a Journal Research article. The description of the assignment may look like this:
Locate a research article in a recently (2010-2019) published professional social welfare journal. Editorials, opinion pieces, literature reviews, summaries of "what we know" and overviews are not "research" articles. A research article presents original findings from the authors' own research study, and will usually include a literature review on the topic, a hypothesis or research question, a description of the methods used to conduct the study, the findings (often in statistical form with tables and graphs), and a discussion of the meaning of the findings. If several of these items are missing, it probably isn't a research article. If your article is not a "research article" and your source is not a professional journal, your paper may not be graded or, if graded, will not earn full points on this assignment.
A professional journal is peer-reviewed by other professionals in that field. Some examples of professional journals are Society, Social Work, Social Policy, Social Problems, American Sociological Review, Child Welfare, Families in Society, Journal of Drug Issues, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, The Gerontologist, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and American Journal of Sociology. Popular magazines, newspapers, and websites are not professional journals.