FIELD OF STUDY: Business Administration ISSUE: Lack of Leadership and Management Skills Enter the following information for each of your sources from a reputable POPULAR source, such as a magazine,

Research Log 1: Public Writing About Controversies in Your Field and Finding a Context For Your Research Question

Goal: You will collect and analyze sources available to the general public, written by experts and non-experts, in order to understand how general public access, reads and understands a conversation.

Direct your research toward establishing the currency of the issue you chose, as well as its current status (unresolved). Find information that establishes why it is a controversy now and what caused it. Instructions:

1. In one or two sentences, describe the topic in your field you are exploring at the top of the research log. Make sure the topic is recent and unresolved, such as a proposed company policy or legislation introduced into local, state or federal legislatures.

2. Compile 4 credible sources. Credible magazines and newspaper articles should be the majority of sources. You must be able to distinguish between opinion pieces in reputable sources and investigative articles from their news desk. Students can get a free subscription to “The New York Times” and the library indexes “The Wall Street Journal.”

Enter the following information about your sources on the table in the worksheet:

1. 1. Author name, date of publication, article name, publication name

   2. Where you found the article (e.g. Database, Google, Twitter, Facebook)

   3. Key terms you used to search for sources...

   4. 1-2 sentences about the exigence the article seeks to address.

   5. Quotes that you want to keep from the article because they are useful.

   6. Make a connection: How does this source engage with other sources you found?

Does it agree, partially agree, or partially disagree, with other sources? Does it expand on the idea? Does it introduce another perspective?

Be sure to answer each question in the Reflection section of the worksheet

Publication Recommendations: “The New York Times,” “The Atlantic,” “The Wall Street Journal,” “The Economist,” “The Washington Post,” etc.