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CI Doctoral Specialization Research Seminar

Join our seminar to enhance your doctoral specialization research skills. Learn about research methods, committees, literature review, and more. Interactive sessions and presentations await you!

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CI Doctoral Specialization Research Seminar

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  1. CI Doctoral Specialization Research Seminar Spring 2014

  2. CI Research Seminar Friday April 11th AGENDA • Freewrite • Course overview: Syllabus • Research group assignments • Select a design • Identify seminal work about and article using the design • Committees & Timelines • Identity: Scholar of dissertation writing • Literature Review: Key Sentences • Feedback • Activity (Looking at books) • Analysis of reference list • Synthesis: Weaving the literature • Methods Overview

  3. Methods “Presentations” • Define the method • Identify the foundational work (key scholars) • Describe it (procedures for using it) • Say when to use it • Identify strengths and limitations • Find at least one example when used • Create a product that you can share with others • Due May 2nd (Case study; interview) • Due May 16th (Focus groups; narrative; surveys)

  4. Committee Membership • Dissertation Chair • Chief worrier • Two GSE committee members • One Office of Graduate Studies Representative • Identification ideas: How do you find them? • Tell them your topic, tenure-track faculty preferred, • Websites (faculty profiles) • Word of mouth (advice from advisors)

  5. Characteristics of Key Sentences • Written as complete sentences • Includes transition sentences • Follows a logical argument • Some one could agree or disagree with your argument • Moves from general to specific • Headings are integrated into key sentences • Does not need to be first sentence of paragraph, though may be easier • Could be written in the form of questions • Go back and forth from key sentences & text

  6. Dissertation Reference Library • Collect 2 or 3 books about writing a dissertation • Refer to them when writing • Keep around the house

  7. Methods Overview • Point in Time • Change over Time

  8. CI Research Seminar Friday May 2nd AGENDA • Freewrite • Methods Section • Interviews and Case Studies presentations • Community of Practice work: Chapters 1 & 2

  9. Methods Section • Methods Template • Research design • Participants • Procedures • Instruments • Role of researcher • Data collection and analysis • Methods Matrix

  10. Tools You Can Use • Action Research Action wiki • Matrix models • Dissertations • Level of detail • Not like a research article • Replication • Books about dissertation writing

  11. Methods Presentations • Interviews • Case Studies

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