DOC714 Symposium I Week 1 Assignment
DOC714 Symposium I
Week 1 Assignment
Degree Program Statement
Part 1: All Students
Write a brief statement indicating your degree program and the research topic you are considering.
Submit your Part 1 assignment.
Part 2: EDD and DM Students
If you are in the EDD or DM programs, include in your brief statement your intended elective track for your program. For example, if you are currently in the EDD with an Educational Leadership (EL) elective track, you can choose an elective track in Curriculum and Instruction (CI), Education Technology (ET), or Higher Education Administration (HEA).
Submit your Part 1 and Part 2 assignments.
Note: If you have not already been contacted by your Student Service Administrator, please download the appropriate form and complete it.
Doctor of Education Elective Track Form
Doctor of Management Elective Track Form
Once your form is completed and submitted, a Student Service Administrator will contact you to confirm your elective track (if you requested a change) and adjust your schedule to reflect your elective track. If you have not determined the best elective track and wish to discuss options, please reach out to the Associate Dean of Instruction for your program for further consultation. Your faculty member can only discuss program and track alignment to the topic and will not provide career advice or trajectory.
DOC714 Symposium I
Week 2 Assignment
Title of the Paper
Your Name
Institution Name
Course Name
Faculty Member’s Name
Assignment Due Date
Critical Reading: Deconstructing a Non-Scholarly Text Worksheet
Locate1 short, opinion- or position-based article or essay, preferably written by only 1 author. In addition:
• Please do not select a peer-reviewed, scholarly source for this assignment.
• Ensure the selected article or essay is from a popular publication (e.g., newspaper editorials, blogs, political pundit websites, or educational or health care activist organization websites).
Engage in a systematic process of closely reading the article or essay. Attempt to derive a sense of meaning from the writing that is not an explicit argument the author is making, but is empirically grounded in the text. Examples of this sense of meaning might include:
• Uncovering a political or ideological position based on the historical nature of examples used by the author
• Determining an author’s value system around a particular issue by analyzing hierarchical structures in their essay’s organization
Complete Parts 1 and 2 using your selected assignment text and follow the provided instructions.
Cite references to support your assignment.
Format citations and references according to APA guidelines.
Part 1: Deconstructing Non-Scholarly Text
Provide the following information:
• Author of the text:
• Title of the text:
• Type of text (e.g., editorial, blog, etc.)
Complete the following 5 tables by using the information in the “Questions to Consider” columns to provide answers in the “General Description,” “Examples From the Text to Support Your General Description,” and “What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example or What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing” columns.
Table 1: Uncovering Explicit Meaning
Questions to Consider General Description Examples From the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
What is the explicit meaning? For example:
• What is the author’s intended message?
• How does the author convey this message?
Table 2: Uncovering Implicit Meaning
Questions to Consider General Description Examples From the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
What is the implicit meaning? For example:
• What assumptions underlie the author’s message?
• What belief system does the text convey?
• What contradictions exist between the explicit and implicit meanings you identified?
Table 3: Evaluating the Author’s Support for Assertions and Conclusions
Questions to Consider General Description Examples from the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
How would you evaluate the author’s support for assertations and conclusions? For example:
• What is the author’s primary source of authority? Are there secondary sources?
• What type of evidence is offered: anecdotal, quantitative, or qualitative?
• Whose voices are privileged?
• How is the author situated within the larger discourse in the field?
Table 4: Identifying Gaps
Questions to Consider General Description Examples from the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
Which gaps did you identify? For example:
• What is omitted?
• Whose voices are silenced?
• How do these omissions influence your interpretation of the text?
Table5: Evaluating the Author’s Thinking
Questions to Consider General Description Examples from the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
How would you evaluate the author’s thinking? For example:
• What are some examples of deductive logic?
• What are some examples of inductive logic?
• What are some examples of abductive logic?
• What are some faults in the logics?
Part 2: Thinking About What You Read
Develop2 questions that would require the author to think about the issue presented in the reading in different ways. This will require abductive thinking and/or perspective switching.
Provide question 1:
Provide question 2:
References
Note: The following provides examples for formatting different pieces of literature. According to APA guidelines, the reference page is not sub-divided by type of literature, but it has been provided in this format for ease of reference as you use this template. All references are in alphabetical order according to authors’ last names. All references listed in the reference list must have an in-text citation from that source in the body of the paper. For additional reference formatting examples, see Ch. 10, “Reference Examples,” of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). For APA tutorials on formatting citations and references, please access the Doctoral Writing Resources page on MyPhoenix.
When using this “References” template page, replace these references with your own, and remove the content type headings and this paragraph.
Journal Article Example
Ainsworth, S., &Purss, A. (2009). Same time, next year? Personnel Review, 38(3), 217–235.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00483480910943304
Authored Book Example
Bateman, T. S., & Snell, S. A. (2007). Management: Leading and collaborating in a competitive world (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Chapter in an Edited BookExample
atough, V., & Smith, J. (2008). Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In C. Willig & W. Stainton-Rogers (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research in psychology (pp. 179–195). Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781848607927.n11
DOC714 Symposium I
Week 3 Assignment
Models of Thinking
View the Models of Thinking Presentation.
Choose 1 model of thinking from the presentation that most likely represents your model of thinking while you were reading and answering the questions from the Inferences and Assumptions Exercise in the Wk 3 Discussion 1 – Inferences and Assumptions.
Use the Student Paper Template to write a 500- to 700-word reflective discussion in which you:
Identify the model of thinking you chose.
Explain the model and any underlying assumptions and inferences you made while rationalizing the scenario presented in the Inferences and Assumptions Exercise.
Explain what thought processes you used to draw conclusions from the scenario in the exercise.
Format citations and references according to APA 7th-edition guidelines.
DOC714 Symposium I
Week 4 Assignment
Summative Assessment: Research Method and Design Using AES
This week you will focus on critically analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing methodology sections in dissertations.
Review and reflect on the AES Model and Guide for Summarizing, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Information using the SPL model to prepare for the assignment.
Complete the Method and Design AES Worksheet. This worksheet contains both the worksheet portion of the assignment and APA formatted paper sections to use for this assignment.
DOC714 Symposium I
Week 5 Assignment
Submitting Your Research Plan From RES/709
Assignment Content
The purpose of integrating feedback from faculty members and dissertation committee members is to not only produce a high-quality dissertation, but also to assist you in becoming an independent and self-directed learner. Feedback is an essential element in writing a dissertation to gain advice and recommendations from individuals who have already done it and can guide you through the process.
View the Prospectus Guide.
Review the feedback provided to you from your RES/709: Research Conceptualization and Design faculty member.
Integrate all feedback in your RES/709: Research Conceptualization and Design course.
Transfer the information from your RES/709: Research Conceptualization and Design course Research Outline template into the appropriate sections of the Prospectus Template. You will be submitting the same Prospectus Template in Weeks 6, 7, and 8 of this course after refining and integrating feedback from the upcoming peer and faculty reviews.
Checklist:
Review the directions above to ensure you meet the assignment objectives.
Format the citations and references according to APA 7th-edition guidelines. Adhere to APA conventions by avoiding the use of first-person point of view.
DOC714 Symposium I
Week 6 Assignment
Prospectus: Problem and Purpose Statements
Visit CDS Central and:
Download the College of Doctoral Studies Dissertation Guide and Alignment Handbook located in the “Tools for Success” section.
Read pp. 44–46, “Doctoral Phase I: The Prospectus.”
Review the Prospectus Guide.
Create a completed problem statement and purpose statement using the information you entered in your Problem Statement Worksheet in the Wk 6 Discussion 1 – Problem Statement, the information you entered in the Purpose Statement Worksheet in the Wk 6 Discussion 2 – Purpose Statement, and from the feedback received from the peer reviews.
Add your completed problem statement and purpose statement to the Prospectus Template you submitted for your Wk 5 – Submitting Your Research Plan From RES/709 assignment.
DOC714 Symposium I
Week 7 Assignment
Research Methodology (Proposed Method and Design) and Research Questions
Assignment Content
you will build on the Prospectus Template you submitted in the Wk 6 – Prospectus: Problem and Purpose Statements assignment. You will do this by identifying and placing in the prospectus the research question(s) and method and design you will use to address your problem and purpose, based on the feedback received from the peer reviews.
Complete the following under the corresponding Prospectus Template sections that you submitted in the Wk 6 – Prospectus: Problem and Purpose Statements assignment:
Sections 1, 2, and 3: Incorporate all revisions from previous feedback.
Section 6: Research Methodology (Proposed Method and Design):
Method: Write 1 paragraph describing the research method you identified and 1 paragraph justifying why the methodology is appropriate.
Design: Write 1 paragraph describing the research design you identified and 1 paragraph justifying why the design is appropriate.
Section 6: Research Questions/Hypotheses: State the research question(s) and hypotheses, if applicable.
Checklist:
Review the directions above to ensure you meet the assignment objectives.
Revise your prospectus, as needed, based on feedback from previous weeks.
Update your reference page to include any additional references.
Cite sources to support your assignment.
Format citations and references according to APA 7th-edition guidelines. Adhere to APA conventions by avoiding the use of first-person point of view.
DOC714 Symposium I
eek 8 Assignment
Summative Assessment: Prospectus
Assignment Content
Incorporate feedback and recommendations received from course colleagues about the framework and significance of the study in this week’s discussions, and:
Input your updated framework in the “Topic Theories” section of the Prospectus Template.
Input your updated significance of the study discussion in the “Significance of the Study” section of the Prospectus Template.
Provide a list of 5 to 10 references in APA format that are relevant to the proposed study in the “Topic Literature” section of the Prospectus Template. Include 1–2 sentences with each reference to describe the relevance of the literature to the proposed study.
Describe the proposed process for collecting data from the research sample and from any archival sources in the “Research Data Collection Strategy” section of the Prospectus Template.
Revise all sections of your Prospectus Template submitted in the Wk 7 – Prospectus: Research Methodology (Proposed Method and Design) and Research Questions assignment based on faculty feedback and the work you completed throughout this course.
Checklist:
Review the directions above to ensure you meet the objectives of the assignment.
Revise the prospectus, as needed, based on feedback from previous weeks.
Update your reference page to include any additional references.
Cite any new sources included in your revisions.
Format citations and references according to APA 7th-edition guidelines. Adhere to APA conventions by avoiding the use of first-person point of view.
Submit your completed prospectus in Blackboard® and to Tk20 for review and assessment.
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