The Week 5 application asks that after reviewing the Walden University Library Links and Resources in this week's Learning Resources, to conduct a keyword search in the Walden Library and download two peer-reviewed articles to use for this assignment.

• Explain two ways that you evaluated the two articles you downloaded to ensure the information within them is, in fact, reliable and accurate.
• Explain how you know that the two articles you downloaded are, in fact, from peer-reviewed journals.
• Write a paragraph explaining the importance, to a scholar-practitioner, of peer review of scholarly journals.
• Include in your explanation the importance of peer-reviewed articles to a scholar-practitioner in your area(s) of interest.

This guide will provide instruction on how to:

• locate peer-reviewed articles in the Walden Library.
• how to evaluate articles.
• how to verify an article is peer-reviewed.
• understand the importance of peer-review in publishing.
• how to download articles from the Library's databases.

The following links will provide instruction to help you complete this application.

The Walden Writing Center can provide help with APA citations. 

Contact them at:  writingsupport@waldenu.edu

Or check out these resources from the Writing Center's website: