Article Planning Amp Development

Question Description

n this week’s assignment you will start to work on the summative

assignment due in Week 6. Please be sure to review the full

requirements for the assignment, which has you develop a substantial

draft of an article that you may wish to continue working on after the

course is completed with the goal of submission to a peer-reviewed

journal for publication. You will be demonstrating in-depth knowledge of

the current literature in your chosen field. A selection of current

topics has been developed throughout the weekly assignments in this

course. The specific area you choose should reflect your interests and

your passion for making a difference. The focus of the paper can be one

of the following: the area of your dissertation; an area in which you

want to become an expert, complementing your dissertation research; or

an area in which you want to develop specific expertise for offering

consulting solutions to organizational and industrial problems. Focus on

a topic that has significance for global organizations and the

application of IO psychology theories.

While much of the article draft in Week 6 should read like acompleted work, it will not be complete in all sections — a fewsections may need to be sketched. In those instances, a plan forcompletion of those sections and appropriate rationale should beprovided.

You must select from two types of articles, A or B, for this assignment:

1. Critical Review of and Contribution to the Literature on a currentand global issue. This normally will include a focus on critique orexpansion or new application of theory.
2. Contribution to Gathering and Understanding of Data on a current andglobal issue. A great deal of your review of the literature will becompleted in this course. You will select a research design andmethodology during this course, but will not be able to complete anygathering of primary data during this course nor will you able to applystatistical analysis to any data. Our six week time frame does not makethis possible.

Both options focus on a current issue or trend in IO psychologyimportant to you. You may be contributing a critique of theory, aproposal of theory, a critical analysis of data gathered by others, aproposal to better explain data that has been gathered, or a proposalthat there are gaps in the data on an important or interesting issue.There are other possibilities as well.

For this week, Week 3, you will need to submit the following items:

• Reference List. This week, you should have a large part of yourreference list completed. Please provide annotations. Provide at leastone paragraph of notes on each of at least 6 to 8 articles and othersources that you will include in your Week Six article draft. Obviously,research grows research, so by Week 6 you will have more sources toinclude. And, if you continue to work on this for publication after thecourse is over, you will likely find yet more important sources.
• Topic Selection and Rationale. This week you should also write atleast one full page (330 words) on the topic you have selected and whyit is important to you. Give sound reasons why your work will be acontribution to this field (and to application of IO psychology). Focuson a topic that has significance for global organizations.
• Your Position. In at least one full page, articulate the gaps,shortfalls, omissions you found in several articles that inspire you tocorrect or critique the positions held by the authors. Or, in at leastone full page, articulate the interest you have found in the work ofseveral authors of articles that inspire you to expand or build on theirwork. (Or, you can do both.)
• Journal. In a brief paragraph or two, discuss which journals youthink will be appropriate targets for your article. This is just apreliminary statement, since as the work builds, it will become cleareras to which journals would be more likely to accept your work. Thepurpose of this section is to get you thinking in earnest of the typesof journals and the types of materials each journal selects. You maywish to explore the Chronicle of Higher Education, which often publishes“calls for articles by journals.” Their website is http://chronicle.com/section/Home/5 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Opportunity for Direction. Take the opportunity to add a plan ofyour work as you see it now, so that you can get some meaningfulcomments, feedback, suggestions, and direction from your instructor.Note that in order to get some meaningful direction from yourinstructor, you will need to explain your ideas as well as you can atthis stage. This section can be one page or several pages in length.This part of the assignment is not given a score. Your instructor willprovide comments, suggestions and recommendations.

The paper should be in APA style. Minimum of 2500 words. Highlighted questions is my selection.