Instructions: Compose a 400 word professional letter to a potential colleague – graduate researcher

Instructions: Compose a 400 word professional letter to a potential colleague
Topic
· Friendships
in the workplace on productivity or job satisfaction
1. Complete
background work by selecting a topic and reading two recent articles.
– Use the topic above containing at least TWO key terms. Use the Library to
locate
two empirical articles from peer-reviewed journals containing
both key terms.
– Try
to only use research published within the last year (but definitely limit to
within the last 5 years).
– Both
articles must be from peer-reviewed sources and must be empirical to
complete
this assignment (remember from Module 1, an empirical article is an original
research study so it will have method and results sections).
2. Compose
a professional letter to a potential colleague to make him or her aware of
these recent findings.
– For
each article, state the research question, sample size, variables of interest,
statistical test used to examine the research question(s), and the conclusions.
Make sure to use parenthetical or narrative citations within your letter using APA
conventions.
– Note you cannot
quote from the articles you selected – you must put
information into your own
words for this entire assignment. “Rephrasing” is switching out a
few words. This
is insufficient at the graduate level and as a professional. You need to be
able to read research and present it using your own language, to demonstrate
you truly
understand how to read a research article.
– Discuss
how the articles work together to strengthen your understanding of the topic
you’ve selected personally and/or professionally, OR why you think their
results are
contradictory.
3. Include
a reference section at the end in current APA style for all citations (minimum
of 2 entries).
**** Your Professional Letter must be
at least 400 words. *****