- Review the Learning Resources on using the library.
- Choose a topic from the list below:
- COVID-19
- Childhood obesity
- Pancreatic cancer
- Falls in the elderly
- Health effects of climate change
- Using the Walden library, find a scholarly, peer-reviewed article on the topic that is no more than 5 years old.
- Find a media source on the topic that is no more than 1 year old. The media article should be written for the general public.
- Review the rubric for this Assignment.
- Review both the article and media source and consider their similarities and differences in how they report on the same topic.
- Explain the process you used for finding the media article.
- Summarize the media article and its findings.
- Explain the process you used for finding the peer-reviewed article in the Walden library and how you determined it was peer reviewed.
- Summarize the peer-reviewed article and its findings.
- Compare the quality of the information from the peer-reviewed article to the mainstream media article. Note similarities and differences. How is each type of resource unique?
- Explain the issues with using non-scholarly sources in your research.