Mining Existing Literature Reviews Assignment

RES 861 Grand Canyon Week 2 Assignment

Mining Existing Literature Reviews Assignment

Details:

The literature reviews of existing dissertations can readily be mined for information regarding who is publishing in a given field and what themes are being explored. In the literature review, themes are the common ideas being discussed across the literature on a given topic. In this assignment, you will mine the literature reviews of three dissertations to guide your own search for information on your intended dissertation topic.

General Requirements: Mining Existing Literature Reviews Assignment

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

The ProQuest Dissertation database has resources that may be helpful for this assignment. You can access the data base by .proquest.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/pqdthss/advanced?accountid=7374″>clicking here.
Instructors will be using a grading rubrics to grade the assignments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment in order to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of 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.

Directions: Mining Existing Literature Reviews Assignment

Locate three dissertations on topics related to your own dissertation research. These may be the same dissertations you located for your second discussion question in Module1.

For each dissertation, locate the literature review (typically Chapter 2) and mine it by constructing an outline of it. Use the given headings as Roman numerals and the subheadings as capital letters in your outline. Follow standard APA outlining format to add additional levels of detail.

Compile a single list of the authors you see cited in each literature review, and identify the topics on which each is writing. A table that identifies the author in one column and a broad topic in a second column is an excellent way to preserve this information.

Write a brief summary (125-250 words) of the literature reviews you mined to submit along with your outlines and author/topic list that you created. Address the following questions about the literature reviews you have just mined:

1- What do you notice about the organization of the literature reviews of the three dissertations? Are they organized chronologically, thematically, or in some other form (if other, identify)? Why might the researcher have chosen this organizational structure?
2- As you observe the content of the three studies, what common ideas (themes) do you see?
3- How do these themes relate to your dissertation topic?

RES 861 Grand Canyon Week 3 Assignment

Literature Review: Outline

Details:

In the previous assignment, you mined the literature reviews of three dissertations to guide your own search for information on your intended dissertation topic. You identified themes (the common ideas being discussed across the literature on a given topic), noted the authors and topics found in the dissertations you mined, and created outlines of the literature reviews of those dissertations. In this assignment, you will outline your own dissertation literature review (Chapter 2).

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

Instructors will be using a grading rubrics to grade the assignments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment in order to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of 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.

Directions:

Review the outlines of dissertation literature reviews you created in the previous assignment, and remind yourself of the themes you identified.

Identify the major themes from those dissertation literature reviews that you believe most significantly influence your dissertation topic. Use them as headings (Roman numerals) to begin an outline of the literature review of your own dissertation topic.

Expand your literature review outline by adding additional relevant themes as headings (Roman numerals) and supporting ideas as subheadings (capital letters). Follow standard APA outlining format to add additional levels of detail.

Write a brief (125-250 words) statement (to be submitted along with the outline) explaining your rationale for selecting the themes you included in your literature review outline.

RES 861 Grand Canyon Week 5 Assignment

Literature Review: Body

Details:

In the previous assignment, you created an outline of the literature review (Chapter 2) for your dissertation. The next step is to draft the body of the literature review. The body of the literature review is its primary segment. It is here that the actual review of the literature takes place. In this assignment, you will construct a draft of the body of the literature review (Chapter 2) for your proposal and dissertation.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

Refer to the most recent dissertation prospectus template in the DC (dc.gcu.edu) for details and criteria for the literature review (Chapter 2).
Instructors will be using a grading rubric to grade the assignments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment in order to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of 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.

Directions:

Prepare a draft literature review (Chapter 2) of 1,750-2,000 words for your dissertation. You will not address all of the themes in your outline in this assignment.

1- Select two of the major themes from the outline of your dissertation literature review that you created in the previous assignment.
2- For each major theme, identify at least three empirical or scholarly articles (six articles total) related to the theme.
3- For each empirical article, state the article title, the author, the research question(s), the research sample, the research methodology, the gaps in the study (what questions does the study raise?), and the research findings of the study. For scholarly, non-empirical articles, state the article title and author, and provide a brief contextual summary of the article.
4- Identify at least three sub-themes that relate to each theme (six sub-themes total).
5- Identify at least three empirical or scholarly articles related to each sub-theme (18 articles total).At least one article must demonstrate a quantitative methodology.
6- For each empirical article, state the research question(s), the research sample, the research methodology, the gaps in the study (what questions does the study raise?), and the research findings of the study. For scholarly, non-empirical articles, state the article title and author, and provide a brief contextual summary of the article.
7- Select one of the quantitative empirical articles used in the sub-themes section of this assignment and identify the following elements:

Alternative and null hypotheses associated with the research question.
Sampling method (How were the participants recruited?).
Variables and the type of scale for each variable.
Inferential statistical tests for hypothesis testing (used to determine if the null hypothesis is retained or rejected).
Level of significance set by the researcher to test the hypothesis.
Results of the statistical tests performed (Was the result of each statistical test significant or not?).
Descriptive statistics for the sample or the data (mean, median, etc.).
Procedures taken to ensure reliability and validity of the data.

Write statements that synthesize the three studies of each sub-theme based on the information you stated above. You will write six synthesis statements.