Investigative Research Article Draft for Peer Review

As a reminder, the main focus of STING Magazine is investigative research articles. As an investigative researcher/writer your assignment is to develop an idea for a feature article for the magazine. All investigative research article topics should fall under one of the STING Magazine categories—Sociocultural, Techno-savvy, Innovative, Newsworthy, Global. Your article should be between eight (8) and ten (10) pages long, not counting your references page(s) that is an absolute necessity to include and any graphs, charts, and/or original photos you choose to include. These must be highly relevant and vital to the article to justify their inclusion.) The article must follow STING Magazine’s Writer’s Submission Guidelines. (See Week 1 module.) It should be properly formatted in APA style and include an abstract. Your investigative research article should also identify a concrete, arguable investigative problem or issue that is explored in your article. All claims (arguments and counter-arguments) must be supported with a minimum of six (6) scholarly, peer reviewed journal articles and books from the NSC Library databases (four of these should/can be from your literature review/annotated article). The title page and the References page do not count toward the eight to 10 page length of the paper. When you submit your draft for peer review, please add the following template at the start of all of your assignment drafts. Fill in the blanks. Add as much as you can to ensure the best possible peer feedback. In this rough draft for peer review, I have been busy working on ___________ and ________ and ______. I really like where _________ is headed because _________. I am not as confident with ______ yet because __________. I still need to add in _________. This week, I would really appreciate any comments about ________ and __________ or __________. I am frustrated with _________ in particular. If I have time, I would like to ask the instructor about __________.