Week 8
assignment
Literature Review Resources
Successful completion of a doctoral dissertation requires
significant amounts of independent reading on the research topic. This allows
the doctoral learner/researcher to become familiar with the scope of the topic
and to identify gaps or tensions within the existing literature on the topic.
These gaps and tensions become the source of the dissertation research. In this
assignment, you will read and annotate potential sources in your dissertation
field of interest. Those demonstrating the most merit to the best of your
understanding of the topic at this time should be added to your RefWorks list
for potential inclusion in the literature review section of your dissertation.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful
completion of the assignment:
It is strongly recommended that you engage in this activity throughout
the duration of your program. You will be adding to this document to begin
building a runnnig literature review. You will have five sources in your list
by the end of this assignment.
Instructors will be scoring your submission based on the
number of unique sources identified in the list submitted.
Download the resource Literature Review Resources Tool and
use it to complete the assignment.
Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their
writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success
Center.
Refer to the resource, “Preparing Annotated
Bibliographies,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional
guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
Directions:
Read at least five empirical articles in your general
dissertation field.
In the “Literature Review Resources” document,
provide the following for each source:
The APA formatted citation.
A brief annotation of the key points of the source.
An indication of whether the source has been added to (Y) or
excluded from (N) your RefWorks list.
Literature Review Resources
One of the most important aspects of your research will be
how you organize your resources. RefWorks is an optional citation management
software tool you can sign up to use that helps organize your citations. To
find out more about how to sign up for your free, optional RefWorks account,
review the information here:
http://libguides.gcu.edu/refworksandendnote.
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