Assignment:
Technical aspects:
This writing assignment must be typed. It should be between 2 to 3 double-spaced pages and absolutely no longer than 4 pages. Rather than concentrate on the length of the paper, aim to answer each question in a thorough and complete manner. Your writing must be clear, free of grammatical errors, and misspellings. Points will be taken off for poor writing.
Requirements:
Carefully read the article entitled: "Who Actually Steals? A Study of Covertly Observed Shoplifters"" by Dean Dabney and colleagues. This article is posted on Canvas under the heading "Critical Thinking Writing Assignment 4."
Write a summary of this article. In your summary address each of the following issues:
- Which of the four types of research is this study? (This research may fall into more than one of these types.)
- What are the research questions posed in this research? (The research question may be implied and never explicitly stated.)
- Describe the method of data collection used in this research. Which of the researcher roles (complete participant, participant as observer, observed as participant, complete observer) best describes this method of data collection?
- The researchers believe that collecting data in this way solves a persistent problem in previous shoplifting research. What is this problem? And do you believe that the method of data collection successfully solves this problem?
- What kind of sampling strategy was used to select observations? Do you believe that this method is likely to yield a representative sample? Explain your response.
- What are the major findings of this research?
Do not simply write one sentence responses to the above questions. Your summary of the article must be written into coherent paragraphs that flow together in essay format. Remember that the quality of written expression is very important to research, and how you say something as well as what you say is important.