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Module 4 Week 8: January 17 - 23, 2022
Posted on: Sunday, January 16, 2022 12:38:56 PM EST
Module 4 Week 8
January 17 – 23, 2022
The Research Question
BEFORE YOU DO ANY WORK ON THIS WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT, PLEASE: Remember to integrate your prior annotated bibliographies into seamless paragraph format which reflects your analysis and synthesis of the material. And, always keep in mind “the economy of expression”.
As always, I will be providing feedback that you should consider when you work on each draft. Check each draft to ensure that any feedback you received will be addressed.
To prepare:
Further refine your paper to include a sample theoretical or conceptual framework and a sample research question. Include the following:
· Identify one theorist and theory/conceptual framework.
· Explain the primary postulates of the selected framework and how they relate to your problem and purpose.
· Review two to three major research studies related to the framework and your study.
· Clearly explain how the theory or conceptual framework aligns with your problem, purpose, and research questions. What ties them together?
· Provide a research question.
By Day 7
To complete:
· Make revisions to your capstone paper based on feedback.
· Include the sample framework and research question.
· Complete and submit this Assignment in complete APA style, following the “APA Course Paper Template With Advice (7th ed.)” document found in the Learning Resources.
WRITING TIP FOR RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
From Joseph Nolan’s 2015 book: Smart Doctor: Getting Through Your Dissertation and Beyond. NTV Resources.
Before you develop your hypotheses (quantitative methodologies) or objectives (qualitative), you should ask a question or questions about the issue that you posed in your problem statement. These questions will form the basis for your hypotheses or objectives. They should be clear, focused, and should require research and analysis. They should not be answered by easily found facts, or be simple yes or no answers. Perhaps a guideline to this would be: if you can get a definitive answer to the question by googling the question, chances are you don’t have a strong research question to guide your study (p. 55).
WRITING TIP FOR HOW TO WRITE YOUR DISSERTATION: A TOP TEN LIST by Dr. Jeffrey Brooks in The Faculty Mentor’s Wisdom (2010) edited by Raymond Calabrese and Page Smith. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
10. Know what a high-quality dissertation looks like.
9. There must be synergy between all parts of your dissertation.
8. Know yourself as a writer.
7. Establish and cultivate a multitiered and a multipurpose support network.
6. Get organized.
5. Focus
4. Don’t just be scholar, be a productive scholar.
3. Think about the impact of your dissertation on the rest of your life.
2. Read.
1. Write (p. 139-143).
WRITING TIPS:
1. Quick links for doctoral capstone: http://academicanswers.waldenu.edu/search/?topics=doctoral+capstone
2. Quick links for APA formatting: http://academicanswers.waldenu.edu/search/?topics=apa%3A+word+formatting
3. Webinars for doctoral capstone writing:
http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/webinars/capstone
4. Writing the literature review: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/assignments/literaturereview
5. Purdue Online Writing Lab covering every skill/topic: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/sitemap/
6. Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/
7. Grammarly: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammarly
8. FAQ on IRB: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/capstone/confidentiality
9. Form & Style: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/capstone/formandstyle
10. Feeling stumped about how to describe the purpose of your research, your approach, or your methods? The Center for Research Quality has tutorials on all of these topics ( and more !). Click the links below to investigate.
c. Research Writing (including information on literature reviews)
11. Walden Capstone Writing Community: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/capstone/community#s-lg-box-2834601
12. Citing examples, including Walden videos: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/references/examples#s-lg-box-2774401
13. Top 10 Reasons for Delays at the F&S Review: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/formandstyle/process/top10delays
14. The Academic Skills Center has several great resources to support you while you work towards completing your doctoral capstone: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASC/capstone/home
15. The Doctoral Capstone Form and Style website regularly adds new resources for doctoral capstone writers. Here are a few of the more recent additions:
· Writing for Social Change in the Capstone
a. Writing the Assumptions, Limitations, and Delimitations
b. Alignment Language in the Problem, Purpose, and Research Questions
c. Formatting Research Questions and Hypotheses
d. Presenting Qualitative Data in the Capstone Study