Hopefully, this week has been fruitful for everyone in terms of narrowing down their dissertation topic. You have an assignment coming up called "Original 10 Key Points", which is a very important assignment because here you will be constructing one 10 Key Points document, which is based on your research topic.
Please make sure you read the announcement about how to do this assignment because often students think that they need to turn in one 10KP template per the five articles, which they use in the assignment. That is not the case. The five articles are meant to be used to support your own dissertation research topic, so you should only use them to justify the gap in research, which your dissertation will address.
The Week 7 assignment (due January 17, 2018) tends to cause confusion for most students. Please read this explanation in order to do the assignment correctly. For this assignment, you DO NOT need to fill out a 10KP Extraction template for each of the five articles.
This assignment is meant to be the beginning of YOUR OWN 10 Key Points Draft, which will eventually become finalized, then turn into the Prospectus, Proposal, and finally the dissertation. Therefore, this assignment needs to be done around your dissertation research idea. The five articles that you are being asked to cite are for the Literature Review section of the 10KP templte.
If you turn in five different 10KP templates, each for a different academic article, I will not be able to grade your assignment and will reassign it back to you, asking that you complete it correctly.
DR. Z-M
ASSIGNMENT ONE
Details:
In the prospectus, proposal and dissertation there are ten key or strategic points that need to be clear, simple, correct, and aligned to ensure the research is doable, valuable, and credible. These points, which provide a guide or vision for the research.
The ten strategic points emerge from researching literature on a topic, which is based on or aligned with, the defined need in the literature as well as the researcher's personal passion, future career purpose, and degree area. You have practiced identifying the ten points in published studies, the next required skill is to define the ten points for an original as yet conducted research study.
In this assignment, you will consider a potential gap in the literature that is emerging from your ongoing reading in your field of interest including including no less than five specific research studies, and you will draft the 10 Strategic Points for a potential dissertation research study based on that identified gap.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
• Important note: Successful completion of this assignment does not indicate that this topic and the related 10 Strategic Points have been approved for use as your dissertation research study topic.
• Locate and download "10 Strategic Points Template with Instructions" located in the DC and use it to complete this assignment.
• This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Directions:
Consider a potential gap in the literature that is emerging from your ongoing reading in your field of interest including no less than five specific research studies. Using the information from those research studies, state the potential gap that you identified and describe how it emerged from the studies you read.
Based on that identified gap, draft the 10 Strategic Points for a potential dissertation research study.
ASSIGNMENT TWO
Details:
In the prospectus, proposal and dissertation there are ten key or strategic points that need to be clear, simple, correct, and aligned to ensure the research is doable, valuable, and credible.
These points, which provide a guide or vision for the research. The ten strategic points emerge from researching literature on a topic, which is based on or aligned with, the defined need in the literature as well as the researcher's personal passion, future career purpose, and degree area. Previously, you drafted the ten strategic points for a potential dissertation research study based on an identified gap in the literature.
In this assignment, you will practice the doctoral dispositions of valuing, accepting, and integrating feedback and reflecting on those inputs as you revise your draft of the ten strategic points created in the preceding assignment.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
• Important note: Successful completion of this assignment does not indicate that this topic and the related 10 Strategic Points have been approved for use as your dissertation research study topic.
• Locate the draft of the 10 Strategic Points that you created in the preceding assignment and the feedback from your instructor and use them to complete this assignment.
• This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Directions:
Reflect on the feedback provided by your instructor on the draft of the 10 Strategic Points that you previously completed. Integrate that feedback as well as your own new ideas into a revised draft the 10 Strategic Points for the potential dissertation research study.