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CLED 830

Discussion Assignment Instructions

You will engage in 4 collaborative Discussions through the course. You are required to provide a thread of at least 400 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of the assigned module: week. In addition to the thread, you are required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads with at least 200 words each by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the same module: week. You should use your course reading, videos, and other resources to complete this assignment. A minimum of 3 citations should be included in the initial post. Where it is appropriate, be sure to also support your initial thread with Scripture references.

Discussion Thread: Literature Review Analysis

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CLED 830

Dissertation Reading

There are many ways a doctoral student will learn the research process toward conducting their own research in a dissertation. The research courses in the Christian Leadership Doctoral Programs are designed to help you as a student to learn the concept of doctoral research and the steps taken in the research process.

Exposure and Familiarity: This course is designed for you to learn specifically about chapter 2 of a dissertation, the literature review. The course texts and various assignments help build your understanding of the rationale for a literature review, necessary components of a review, and how to go about conducting a review. One important way to learn and gain confidence to conduct your own literature review is exposure to other literature reviews from a social science dissertation. As you read several literature reviews in other dissertations you begin to gain a level of familiarity with this component of research. It is even more valuable to gain exposure to reviews that are related to your intended research topic. This exposure allows you to become familiar with the literature surrounding your topic while recognizing various approaches to a literature review. 

Finding Dissertations: With the value of reading other dissertation literature reviews, especially related to your intended research topic, it is important to find relevant dissertations and review their chapter 2 literature reviews. The best way to find doctoral dissertations is through the Jerry Falwell Library (JFL) and specifically within the database, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. There is also a ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ Liberty University to narrow to those produced by LU students. If you navigate to the JFL homepage, you will find the Find Resources feature. To the right of this search box is a link to “Browse All Databases.” Follow this link and then select “P” to narrow to databases beginning with P in the title and scroll to find both ProQuest database options mentioned above. Once at the ProQuest homepage, you can select “Full text” and “Doctoral dissertations only” to help narrow the search. There are numerous other filter options as well.

Preparing for the Assignment: This course has a discussion assignment (Discussion: Literature Review Analysis) in Module 3: Week 3 that requires some reading in advance of the module. In preparation for the discussion, you will need to read three literature reviews (found in chapter 2) from dissertations that are relevant to your research topic. Choose three dissertations from ProQuest related to your research topic. The selected dissertations must be for a research doctoral program (EdD or PhD), from a Christian institution, and deal with a topic in the fields of leadership or education. Each dissertation must be empirical in nature and be social science based in its methodological design. Then, in Module 3: Week 3, you will conduct an analysis of one of the literature reviews you have read.