Assignment:
Literature Review: Final Draft Assignment Instructions
Overview:
The breadth and depth of a Literature Review is foundational to a good dissertation. Investing time in developing a focused and comprehensive literature review will prepare you to think critically about the research question (singular), methodologies, and data collection and analysis, thereby laying a solid foundation for your dissertation. Using feedback from prior assignments, you will synthesize relevant peer-reviewed literature to create a final draft of the literature review that identifies key themes, evaluates existing research, and highlights the gap (singular) in knowledge. You will demonstrate that the literature has been synthesized and not merely summarized.
Instructions:
The use of artificial intelligence tools to generate, compose, or outsource any portion of your written work is strictly prohibited. Submitting AI-produced or AI-assisted writing constitutes a violation of the academic integrity expectations for this doctoral course. All submissions must reflect your own original scholarly analysis and writing. Need Assignment Help?
Do not merely copy and paste from prior assignments or the initial draft of your literature review. This is a final draft that in corporate feedback and course content from past weeks and demonstrates a robust review of the literature. While some references may be the same, the content of your paper should be robust as the assignment prompts are different.
Using the elements below at a minimum, write an essay of at least 4-7 pages in current APA format. Page counts do not include front matter and back matter.
Submit the literature review as a Word document. Your essay should be clear, have a logical flow, and be organized in level headings per current APA format and per textbook readings.
As stated above, be sure to include the following within your final draft at a minimum:
- Clearly state the objectives and purpose of the literature review. The introduction should contextualize the literature review within the broader scope of the dissertation.
- Synthesize findings from relevant scholarly literature.
- Analyze the key themes, theories, methodologies, and empirical findings emerging from the literature.
- Provide critical evaluation and synthesis of existing research to identify strengths, weaknesses, and the gap (singular). You must integrate findings from various sources to construct a cohesive narrative.
- Use appropriate in-text citations and references to acknowledge the contributions of each source.
- Ensure proper citation formatting according to the required citation style, APA current edition.
- Identify the gap (singular) and inconsistencies in the literature that warrant further investigation.
- Discuss the research question (singular) and any unresolved areas lacking sufficient research attention.
- Conclude the literature review with a summary of key findings and insights derived from the synthesized literature.
- Reflect on the implications of the literature review for the dissertation research.
- Suggest potential avenues for future research based on the identified gap (singular) based on your review of literature on the area of interest.
- The assignment should be written in APA current edition format. All doctoral students must use the professional version.
A minimum of 10sourcesare required in addition to the Galvan and Galvan course text and the Bible both of which must be used and cited. Biblical integration must be present. The sources used should generally be ones you used within the initial draft assignment. You may add some sources to and remove some sources from the Initial Draft assignment. However, be sure to meet you meet the source requirements for this assignment.
Acceptable sources include peer-reviewed sources published within the last five years (current year, plus prior 4 years) and seminal works for the theoretical framework (which can be more than 5 years old). You may include older articles provided you also meet the minimum requirement for 10 peer-reviewed sources published within the past 5 years (current year plus prior 4 years). If you exclude older articles, you may miss important information.
For all assignments in this course, you are expected to demonstrate progression by incorporating instructor feedback from prior assignments in this course.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
At this stage in your doctoral journey, and specifically for this course, do not use the following or any secondary sources in your reference list: systematic reviews, integrative reviews, scoping reviews, and meta-analyses. These are secondary sources, and citing them is essentially the same as citing a review of other studies, rather than the original research.
For your assignments, you must rely on primary, peer reviewed research articles. Primary sources report original data, methods, and findings, and these are essential for developing the critical research skills needed at the doctoral level. You may read systematic reviews and other secondary sources to help you understand your topic more broadly. However, if you come across useful studies within those reviews, locate and cite the original (primary) research articles from the reference lists rather than citing the review itself.
At this stage in your doctoral journey, you are in the coursework phase. Coursework prepares you for the dissertation phase, but it is not a substitute for the work required once you begin your dissertation. When you enter the dissertation phase, you will follow the direction and expectations of your Dissertation Chair. For now, please complete all assignments according to the requirements of this course, knowing that dissertation level guidance will come later from the Chair of your dissertation committee.