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conduct research for information in academic and general-audience sources. Check out this in-depth UMGC Library research tutorial to refresh your skills and learn how to find and use business research resources. This should enable you to hone your search terms to find resources that will help you identify the top trends in your industry. Once you have identified the top trends, you will choose an issue in one of the three top trends and conduct more research to provide an analysis of the issue, its effect on the industry, and how an organization would address this issue—whether to avoid or make use of it—to its own advantage.

A trend could be something well-known in the industry, a new development, or something you consider unrecognized or disputed. You will use your research to provide evidence for your conclusions about the trends you choose, and your initial choices may change as you read more deeply. Review resources that you find in periodicals, journals, newspapers, industry blogs, and other websites to choose the best references to inform your choice of trends. Use industry-specific keywords, and take notes on your reading because you will be building on this research in the next step as you choose an issue within one of the trends.

Cyber Resources
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US Department of Commerce, funds Cyberseek. Cyberseek helps those interested in cyber-careers to explore the many opportunities available. The UMGC Library also has cyber-specific research guides. These resources can help you find the trends in cybersecurity most useful to you.

Searching for relevant and timely sources and gathering citation details may take up to three hours. After you have identified the top three trends in your industry, move on to the next step to investigate a specific issue.

 

Step 2

In the last step, you used research to identify three top trends in your industry. Now it is time to focus on an issue within one of those trends that you think is noteworthy in your field. This project requires you to review the trends, develop a plan to research the issue further, and synthesize the information you find into a coherent, well-supported analysis.

First, you will develop a focused research question or statement of the problem. This is like the starting point for solving any problem with the scientific method: You must first identify the problem. Then, when you have researched a bit more, you will form a reasonable assumption (a hypothesis) of a potential resolution or answer. You will look for more information that reflects different viewpoints on the issue and use analytical thinking to arrive at a well-reasoned conclusion. This conclusion may or may not bear out your original assumption; however, your goal is to arrive at an answer that is well-supported and based on facts. Remember, you are considering the impact of this issue on your industry, so your analysis may be a step toward a practical solution for your organization.

So, choose an issue from your research on a trend in your industry that has potential for great impact on the field, and then draft a preliminary question or statement of the problem. Your research should reveal if the question has already been answered or if there is enough information on the topic. Refine your statement of the problem and ask yourself, “so what?” Will your answer contribute to knowledge about the issue you have selected? Is the question answerable? Remember that in academic work, you would normally avoid normative or open-ended questions, which start with the words should or would, or any question that can be answered with a yes or a no.

Once you have chosen your issue and completed enough research to provide a well-reasoned answer or solution, move on to the next step, in which you will draft your research paper.

 

Step 3

In the previous two steps, you performed research, first to identify industry trends, and then for information about an issue in one of those trends that you consider to be important to your industry. Now it is time to draft your paper.

This would be a good time to review information on organization in writing and paragraphs. You might also want to check out the Effective Writing Center’s Online Guide to Writing, a valuable reference for improving your writing.

Your research paper should accomplish two objectives:

Identify the three top trends in your industry and your rationale, based on the resources you have found, for your choices.
Discuss the issue within one of the trends that you deem important, based on the current state of the industry, and will be supported by your analysis of facts and a well-reasoned conclusion of what it means to the industry

 

Sample Solution

psychotropic substances, which as a result of the enforcement and high risk associated with the trade course prices to increase, as the drug market is not regulated by authority rather it is determined by the supply and demand. However, the effort by local and international law enforcement agents to tackle or reduce the output of illicit drugs, did not brought about any shift in the quantity of output as the amount of drugs seized in previous years are doubled in the next cropping season, meaning that, Law enforcement is not the best approach for drug control (Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of UNODC, 2007). Also the enforcement to eradicate the production of cocoa crops, will not stop the farmers, farming which is only the main source of their income, rather, the measures will displace the farmers to other areas, causing the farmers to shift their attention to other areas, which are seen as safe place, the “Balloon effect”, the traffickers, small sellers and farmers will move to continue their business. The farmers who need little or no technology and cost to start farming will use the opportunity created by law enforcement personnel to cultivate new crops in their new location, while the traffickers will look for new routes to transit their drugs, and the petty sellers to change the location of operation. However, the containment programme like interdiction and illicit drug enforcement laws will create artificial scarcity while the price of heroin, cocaine and marijuana will go up. The more risk involved to obtain and sell illicit drugs, the more prices will go up, consumers will have to pay a higher price to obtain the drug, the price rise will result in low consumption, and the less risk will result to more drugs available, cheaper price and pure quality, unlike where the price is high, traffickers and petty sellers will adulterate the drug to enable them maximize their profit and this will be harmful to consumers.

However, the positive effect of increasing price of illicit drug to consumers, for example in the USA, during 1980’s and early 1990’s, the consumption level was very low, as the youths were less likely to experiment using illicit drug, due to its high cost but during the 1980’s, people were more likely going to experiment using drug due to the low price, because it is readily affordable, as marijuana was very cheap and affordable, making it more likely that the consumption level will rise again as marijuana will be the choice drug of the youths and adults; in contrast to cocaine and heroin, which is a high class drug.

The experimental level was so low, because the price of class A drugs were high, making, researchers to conclude that, increase price, makes consumption level to be low, while the consumption level increases when the price is low, however, both the use of heroin and cocaine have the same pattern (NHSDA).

Moreover, increase price due to increase risk, might encourage consumers to look inward rather than outward in drug consumption. Consumers may have a rethink on the amount of drug they will be able to buy when price is high, hence the consumer, will put into consideration on the amount of money he will use for other household items, and may choose to purchase lower dose of illicit drug with the same amount of money, hence overspending on the cost of drug will affect other household expenses. The addict may also choose between going to prison and deciding to take drug treatment/rehabilitation in other to quite, or alternatively may switch over to other types of drug, which is cheaper than cocaine or heroin.

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