This paper explores the effects of social media. The purpose of this research project was to teach you the entire process of conducting a thorough literature review,

Effects of social media.

The purpose of this research project was to teach you the entire process of conducting a thorough literature review, crafting a hypothesis based on a reading of that literature, designing an experiment to test that hypothesis, analyzing the data, and discussing how those data support or refute what we know about our research topic. In short, this assignment was designed to teach you how to be a researcher. In class we have discussed the background for our study and by the time you finish this paper you will have read at least four (ideally man y more) research articles related to y our study . As a class we designed our study and collected our data.

Effects of social media.

Those data have now been analyzed and discussed in the classroom and it is time to put together a formal report on these findings. Thankfully, you have already written most of the background and proposed method for this study. As such, the first job you have is to make changes, corrections, and revisions to the Introduction and Method section (and any other sections) of your graded Research Proposal . You will be turning this in, along with the grade sheet, with your Final Research Paper. The next step is to report your findings, evaluate both their impact as well as the generalizability and limitations of your study, and make plans for future research directions that follow from these data.

Effects of social media.

The assignment:  Complete the second research article analysis assignment on relevant articles of your choosing. Make revisions, corrections, changes to your Research Proposal.  Write an APA style Results section describing the pattern of effects we observed in our data. Remember this requires a graphical form (you are required to create both a Table and a Figure and to include these in the Appendix), a statistical form (reporting the results of hypothesis tests) , and narrative form (describing the patterns in plain English).  Write a thorough Discussion that addresses the importance of the findings, their relevance to existing theory discussed in the Introduction, and potential limitations of the research design, participants, etc.

Effects of social media.

The Discussion (and possibly your Introduction) should include reference to research that you have found in your second article analyses as well as independent research.  Turn in a Final Research Paper with Title Page, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, References, and Appendix (with at least one Table and at least one Figure). Collect a full set of data from at least 8 participants. Collected more? Extra credit is likely. More Details.  No specific page requirement maximum but as a guideline, 12 – 16 pages of written text is a good target length (that does not include title page , abstract, or references). https://youtu.be/wNYRkLdj_OY

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