Houston Community College System Youth and Adolescents Research Paper

The purpose of this paper is to encourage you to view Human Development as a Science. Human Development is a science that depends on theories, data, analysis, critical thinking and methods similar to those used in daily science. The assignment requires you to review professional journals relevant to human development. Choose an article/topic that is of interest to you. Save the pdf to a file, read the article several times then write a paper about the article using American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition style. To access Lone Star College System’s databases go to http://www.lonestar.edu/library/article-databases….

You will need a current student identification card to access the databases from home. A Bibliographic Instruction (BI) with a librarian may be necessary if you have never accessed the databases before. A resource librarian can explain how to look for an original research article from journals that are available through Lone Star College-Montgomery Library. Articles retrieved through a common search engine like Google, popular magazines like Psychology Today, or books are not appropriate for this assignment. A review of several articles or an opinion article is not acceptable either. Use the library’s search engines, (e.g., Academic Search Complete), to search for articles in the Social or Behavioral Sciences specific to Human Development. Examples of journals for review are; the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Exceptional Children, the Journal of Developmental Education, the Journal of Counseling and Development or the Journal of Adult Development to name a few.