Scavenger Hunt

As you begin your doctoral journey, you will need to know where to find information that will help you be successful in completing your course and program requirements. Review the Walden University Academic Guides websites, found in this week's Learning Resources, to familiarize yourself with the locations of the many resources and policies that will support and guide you throughout your DBA program.

To begin this exercise, read each of the following hints; they will help you locate specific resources housed within the Academic Guides websites. Complete each item by answering the questions associated with the hint. Once you complete this activity, you will post it as part of your Discussion for the week. Good luck!

Hint 1: You must become proficient in the use of Microsoft Word.

All Walden University students are required to write academic papers and complete Assignments using Microsoft (MS) Word. Pretend you are unfamiliar with MS Word and you need to know where to find tips to become a proficient user.

What center or department is responsible for providing this information?

Place the hyperlink in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

What specific information about MS Word did you find?

Hint 2: You need to know what is expected of you when submitting written Assignments.

All Walden University students are required to write academic papers and other Assignments that adhere to the University's academic integrity policies for written assignments.

What center or department has information concerning Academic Integrity?

What is plagiarism, and what information did you find within the website?

Place the hyperlink(s) in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark the webpage(s) on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

Hint 3: You practiced using MS Word but found you now need to evaluate another student's paper, and you must use the MS Word Track Changes feature to insert comments.

As an independent scholar at Walden University, you have a reader audience (i.e., your Instructor and colleagues), and you will need to become familiar with the format of the comments you may receive from your Instructor.

What center or department contains directions for getting help using the Track Changes function in MS Word?

Place the hyperlink of the MS Word Track Changes feature here and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

What specific information is provided to assist you with using the Track Changes feature?

Once you have reviewed the information on how to use Track Changes, insert a comment in the following line that says "Place Your Comment Here." Within your comment bubble, type the following: "I, [insert your name], created this Track Changes comment."

Place Your Comment Here

Hint 4: You realize that, as someone who attends an online university, one of your most valuable resources is your computer, and ensuring that all your files are available and accessible at all times is essential.

Walden University staff offers strategies for backing up your files. Find the computer back up webpage.

What center provides these strategies?

Place the hyperlink in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can refer to it later.

What three backup strategies did you find?

What are the differences between each strategy?

Which one of these backup strategies, or another of your choosing, will you use and why?

Hint 5: You want to bookmark an easy Quick Reference Link to the e-Guide.

Walden University staff want to ensure that you, as an independent scholar, know you are not alone and that they are here to help you.

What center or department contains quick access to the e-Guide?

Place the hyperlink here and if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

What specific information is on the e-Guide webpage?

Hint 6: You need to search Google Scholar within the Walden online environment, but you do not know how to find it.

As you conduct research, you will need to locate peer-reviewed sources from online journals and other publications. Google Scholar is one resource you can use to find sources easily and efficiently.

What center or department provides this information about Google Scholar?

Place the hyperlink in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it as you later.

What information is found on the "Google Scholar: Home" webpage?

What steps did you take to link Google Scholar to your Walden Library?

Hint 7: You have not written an academic paper in some time, and you need someone to revivew your paper.

You need a paper review, and you want a skilled individual to critique it before your Instructor grades it.

What center or department provides this service?

Place the hyperlink in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

What information did you find on paper reviews?

Hint 8: You want to ensure all your Discussion posts, follow-up responses, and Assignments contain no grammatical errors.

As an independent scholar, you must follow appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage rules for your scholarly writing. You may be familiar with MS Word's spelling and grammar check features, but Walden University also provides students access to Grammarly.

What center or department provides the tool Grammarly?

Place the hyperlink in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

What is Grammarly?

What type of assistance and information can you receive from Grammarly?

How can you access Grammarly?

Hint 9: You must find a theory and provide its name and key tenets. You are unsure how and where to locate it, however, so you want to use a How do a find theories search function.

What center or department provides the Sage Knowledge database, among other resources?

Place the hyperlink in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

Hint 10: You must find a peer-reviewed article, and it must be specific to the Business Management database and specifically from EBSCOhost Business Source Complete.

What center provides this information?

Place the hyperlink in the following space and, if necessary, bookmark this webpage on your Internet browser so you can use it later.

Find a peer-reviewed article written within the past 5 years, and provide an APA-formatted reference of the article in the following space.

What steps did you take to find a peer-reviewed article?