Discussion:
Dissecting a Scholarly Article
For this discussion, you will be dusting off your skills as a consumer of research and begin to build your eye for a critical examination of research methods and designs and conventions for scholarly publications.
Using the assigned reading reporting on a study of dissertations in CACREP-accredited doctoral programs, identify the following elements of the study in a bullet-pointed list:
• Date of publication.
• Journal title.
• Authors and affiliations.
• Need for the study.
• Research question (or questions).
• Population sampled.
• Research method (quantitative or qualitative).
• Method (or methods) of data collection.
• Results (brief list of findings).
• Discussion (implications of findings).
• Limitations.
• Recommendations for further research.
Referring to Chapter in your APA manual and the conventions for manuscript structure and content of manuscripts, evaluate how well Borders et al. (2015) conformed to expectations for scholarly publication of research results.