In RES-815 you selected five empirical articles to begin working on your proposed dissertation topic. For this assignment you will select 10 new empirical articles on your proposed dissertation topic to annotate and then to complete a reflection section.
Directions:
Use the Dissertation Development Template to annotate 10 new empirical articles for your proposed dissertation topic.
Complete the reflection section that follows the annotated bibliography in the template to do the following:
DISSERTATION DEVELOPMENT
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Topic of Research
Your Name Goes Here
Grand Canyon University: RES 820
Date
DISSERTATION DEVELOPMENT
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Topic of Research
Baker, V. L., & Pifer, M. J. (2011). The role of relationships in the transition from doctor to
independent scholar. Studies in Continuing Education, 33(1), 5-17.
http://doi.org/10.1080/0158037X. 2010.515569
For this assignment select ten empirical, peer-reviewed research articles that are
current and relevant to your dissertation topic. Provide a reference and an annotation
(150-250 words) that includes important details about the article for each of the
sources.
Annotations are descriptive and critical assessments of literature that help researchers
evaluate texts and determine relevancy in relation to a research project. Ultimately, it
is a note-taking tool that fosters critical thinking and helps you evaluate the source
material for possible later use. Instead of reading articles and forgetting what you have
read, you have a convenient document full of helpful information. An annotated
bibliography can help you see the bigger picture of the literature you are reading. It
can help you visualize the overall status of the topic, as well as where your unique
question might fit into the field of literature.
Your sources should not be Class Resources, dissertations, books, reports, conference
papers, legal documents, book reviews, editorials, newspaper articles, magazine
articles, and other sources that are not peer-reviewed.
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Degree
Provide a sentence identifying your degree program and emphasis area.
Research Focus
Provide one sentence that discusses how your topic area aligns with your degree and
emphasis area.
Feasibility of Research Problem
Provide one sentence that justifies the feasibility of your proposed research project.
Problem Statement
A problem statement emerges from reading and studying the literature around a topic. In
RES 815 you discussed what is known, what needs to be known, and what is the significance of
the potential problem you are investigating. Now you will organize this into different sections
below. In this section, begin with the Problem Statement with a declarative problem statement
based on the Identification of a problem space and your review of the literature in your field.
Choose one of the formats below to write a one-sentence problem statement.
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It is not known how or why…
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Based on what is known in literature, _____ is still unknown/what still needs to be
understood is…
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While the literature indicates ____________, it is not known in
(school/district/organization/community) if __________.
Need for Study
Next, discuss why this is an important problem that needs to be investigated, that is, what
is the benefit of studying this specific problem? (150-250 words)
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Conceptual/Theoretical Framework
In the articles that you selected review the conceptual or theoretical frameworks that the
authors used. Choose the one that seem the most promising to use in your own research. Discuss
how this framework shows potential for helping you to investigate your problem space. Using
the reference page, what would be the seminal work that the author(s) used that relates to the
theoretical framework. (150-250 words)
Significance
Choose one of the articles you selected and discuss how their findings were significant to
their problem area. How might examining the significance sections of articles help you prepare
to write this section of your own proposal? How do you think your study will be significant to
your field? (150-250 words)
Defense of Article Selection
The selection of the articles you choose to include is essential in developing an
understanding of the literature on your topic. For this assignment you selected ten empirical
articles that are important to your understanding of the problem. In this section, defend your
selection of your ten articles for the annotated bibliography. Why were these ten articles
important enough to annotate? How do these align with your research focus? Are they current
and relevant? (250-500 words)
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