Essay Assignment: This assignment requires the creation of an at least 5 page APA compliant multiple source essay citing at most six peer reviewed full text journal articles fetched from ProQuest, BE & T, InfoTrac, and Academic OneFile. The essay should demonstrate the following:
• Compare and contrast three business research papers as to describe how the researchers considered ethical concerns, ensured validity, performed data collection, and defined measurements using proper scales.
• Explain why the researchers exhibited similarities and differences in how they considered ethical concerns, ensured validity, performed data collection, and defined measurements using proper scales.
• Derive two rules given the above analysis.
• Explain why the rules you derived is important.
Further, the essay should have segments clearly labeled using APA Level 1 and 2 headings. You may wish to consider the following steps to help organize your pre-writing efforts:
Step 1. Brainstorm ideas and develop a thesis statement for the paper.
Step 2. Gather ideas into lists by listing subordinate ideas beneath main ideas.
Step 3. Organize the lists as to build a logical argument supporting your thesis statement.
Step 4. Create an outline of the introduction paragraph containing the thesis statement.
Step 5. Create an outline of the conclusion justifying your thesis statement.
Step 6. Begin drafting your paper!