Health & Communication
In the Final Interdisciplinary Research Paper Assignment, you will write about the following steps of the Interdisciplinary Research Process:
Step 5: Critically Analyze the Disciplinary Insights Into the Problem
In this assignment, you will produce a draft of Step 5 – Critically Analyze the Disciplinary Insights Into the Problem. The draft will enable you to receive feedback from your instructor before submitting your final research paper.
RESEARCH PROBLEM: “Miscommunication between nurses and doctors can be life-threatening for a patient.”
You will use PRST 4995 Module 1 as a reference (attached in additional materials)
This assignment requires you to include six references from different disciplines related to your research problem. At least four of the sources should be peer-reviewed articles published in the past 10 years. Remaining sources may be appropriate government, trade, web, or other publications published in the past 10 years.
1. Critically Analyze the Disciplines Insights Into the Problem (Step 5)
DISCIPLINE 1: HEALTH
DISCPLINE 2: COMMUNICATION
Your draft of Step 5 will include two parts: presenting disciplinary insights and identifying conflict and agreement between insights.
A. PRESENT DISCIPLINARY INSIGHTS
Explain each relevant disciplines overall approach to the problem (2 pages per discipline) based on your research (discuss one discipline at a time). You must support your writing with evidence from all of your sources related to that specific discipline. Your analysis should be based on the insights produced in each of the sources from your literature search.
Read your sources carefully and look for what the author discusses as:
the scope and magnitude of the problem
causes of the problem
effects of the problem
solutions to the problem
theories related to this problem
This strategy will help you discuss each disciplines insights about the problem. You may discuss other findings as well.
B. IDENTIFY CONFLICT AND AGREEMENT BETWEEN INSIGHTS
After presenting each discipline’s perspective on, and important insights into, the problem, summarize conflict and/or agreement between insights (approximately 200 – 300 words). Sources must be incorporated and appropriately paraphrased and cited.
2. Reference Page
Provide an APA-formatted reference page of all sources used in your assignment. Remember that four sources must be peer-reviewed sources and the remaining two (or more) sources may be trade, government, book, or other appropriate sources. All sources should be current and published within the past 10 years.
