Purpose of Academic Research

My industry and career path is Engineering, systems engineering and data science. You could use any of those as a basis probably.

For this Research and Documentation assignment, follow the directions below and prepare a report covering the points presented. Use APA Style to create this report in an MS Word document. Your report should be approximately two pages in length and should include a cover page, with a Running head, and a References page. Your report should use headings. You do not need to include an Abstract.

Describe the purpose of academic research and its relevance to your career path.
Define the term “Peer Reviewed” articles. (For this definition, you may use the Internet or the ECPI Online Library reference collections such as the Credo Reference database. You may sometimes see the term scholarly used interchangeably with peer-reviewed. The word peer, in this case, refers to subject matter experts in that particular field.)
Explain the importance of using scholarly resources and how such resources help professionals to make sound decisions.
Next, locate a scholarly/peer-reviewed article in your discipline using the Technology-focused databases in the Online Library. Provide a brief summary of the article located. Include your own interpretations and opinions about the article and what you have learned.
In conclusion, explain how the information in this article might be useful to your career path.
Use the APA Style Guide found in the Online Library for how to use in-text citations, how to format your report in APA style, and how to prepare the cover sheet and References page. This is a learning process. However, here are some tools for you to use. You can download this APA Style Template Download APA Style TemplatePreview the document to use for this assignment and for research assignments in your courses. You can also download this sample paper Download sample paperPreview the document that uses APA Style and this Research Paper Outline Download Research Paper OutlinePreview the document for full-blown research projects.

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