Adult Gerontology
Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area (Adult Gerontology) and is of particular interest to you. Identify the database that you used to search for a peer-reviewed article in your area of practice and interest. Share your experience with searching the database. Did you note any difficulties when searching for an article? What steps/strategies did you find helpful for locating a peer-reviewed article? Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Would you recommend this database? Once you have select your peer-reviewed article, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses in terms of scholarly writing, bias, opinion, quality of evidence, and appropriateness to its target audience. write a brief summary of your peer-reviewed article, the database you located your article in, your database searching experience, key words utilized in the search, and analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the article. Walden University. (2012b). Walden University: Academic integrity & Turnitin. Retrieved from http://writingcenter(dot)waldenu(dot)edu/809.htm Review the resources presented at this website, including the Walden Turnitin and Academic Integrity Online Tutorial and the information provided in the “How to Read a Turnitin Originality Report” section of this website. Walden University. (2012h). Walden University: Scholarly writing. Retrieved from http://writingcenter(dot)waldenu(dot)edu/312.htm
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Searching for the article through the database was a difficult task. To make sure that one can find an article that is relevant in the Adult Gerontology; one has to apply a broad search strategy. This also means that to get the right article one has to play around with the words (Education Portal, 2014). Most articles that are more than five years old tend to be out of date; as such, looking at the date stamp also narrows the search (Saxe & Murray, 2014). Considering the levels of the material available on the HYPERLINK "/"National Center for Biotechnology Information database, it is a rather polished academic resource (Bardach & Rowles, 2012). It features a wide range of articles all of which are academically sound as they are written by experts and represented professionally. I would recommend any student to use the database for their academic references, as the database features very relevant resource material. The key words used in the search include; Adult Gerontology, Gerontology and Geriatric Education.
In an example, the article “Geriatric Education in the Health Professions: Are We Making Progress?” by Bardach and Rowles; follows all the guidelines of a research paper, where the order of ideas flows from the abstract to the conclusion (Bardach & Rowles, 2012). At the same time, there is a professional authority in the language and there is also minimal bias. Evidence is presented throughout the paper making the reader more comfortable ...