Using the Ashford University Library, find a scholarly business research article on a topic you may want to write about for your final paper.
Sample topics include, but are not limited to:
- Manufacturing Quality/Cost Improvement
- Service Quality Improvement
- Systems Design
- Accounts Receivable/Billing/Accounts Receivable Aging
- Marketing/Advertising Issues
- Sales of Goods
- Investments
- Product Safety
- Workplace Safety
- Labor Pools
- Human Resources matters of broad concern
- Population Studies
Use the Library Research Tips Tutorial to help you complete this assignment. The tutorial covers what scholarly sources are and how to find them, generating and using keywords, and searching in the best library databases for business research.
Read the scholarly article all the way through before you post. In your post, provide
- The citation formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (points will be deducted if APA formatting is incorrect).
- The article's research question.
- The article's hypothesis.
- A brief description, in your own words, about how the article answered the research question and tested the hypothesis.
- Your evaluation of how well the study answered the question and tested the hypothesis.
Respond to at least two of your classmates' posts.