For this assignment, send me 4 peer-reviewed sources, however, I will allow 1 non peer-reviewed journal article as a source. Review your research question since this is the driving force for the research paper. If your research question is relatively precise by including social factors and social institutions, then you can include these words into the search. Generic and vague questions typically provide thousands of unusable articles. If you cannot find usable articles, then use different keywords.
While searching for articles, choose to filter scholarly ‘peer reviewed’ sources and select the full article. Otherwise, the search may find unusable sources. The main differences between peer and non-peer reviewed is that peer-reviewed sources are scholarly, longer, designed for facts, and virtually no advertising. Non-peer reviewed sources are for the general public, short articles, rarely cite sources, and have a lot of advertising.
Once you find your sources, you can either download the articles to your computer or save them to a cloud drive.
Ensure scholarly peer-reviewed journals are based in the United States
Make sure to send the files to me as .pdf
Most sources from magazines, generic online articles, television, etc. are considered non-peer reviewed. Some examples of non peer-reviewed sources are from the New York Post, Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN, Fox News, etc. The bulk of the sources from your research paper need to be peer-reviewed. These sources are from The Western Journal of Black Studies, Social Forces, Clinical Toxicology, Gender and Society, Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Research Question
How do different social media usage patterns influence the development and maintenance of friendships among college students from diverse cultural backgrounds?
