Details:

Over the last few courses, you have been developing your dissertation research prospectus from your 10 Key Strategic Points document. At this point, you should have a preliminary draft of your prospectus that integrates an abbreviated version of your literature review into the introduction to the prospectus. Your prospectus should include all components listed in the Prospectus Review Checklist,- and the Prospectus Template" should be followed explicitly to organize formatting and content. This assignment is another opportunity for you to receive feedback on your progress to date. You will continue to work on your prospectus throughout this course by implementing feedback received on this assignment. Another submission of a more polished prospectus will be due later in this course. Additionally, continue to expand and improve upon your literature review, including the theoretical foundations that have been established for your specific topic, as the entire literature review will be included in your dissertation proposal to be submitted in subsequent courses.

General Requirements:

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

- Locate your initiated dissertation prospectus document.

- Download the most current version of the Prospectus Template and the Prospectus Review Checklist from http://dc.gcu.edu.

- 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.

- This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.

The 10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus, Proposal, and Dissertation

Introduction

In the Prospectus, Proposal and Dissertation there are ten key or strategic points that need to be clear, simple, correct, and aligned to ensure the research is doable, valuable, and credible. These points, which provide a guide or vision for the research, are present in almost any research. They are defined within this 10 Strategic Points document.

The 10 Strategic Points

The 10 strategy points emerge from researching literature on a topic, which is based on, or aligned with, the defined need in the literature as well as the learner's personal passion, future career purpose, and degree area. The 10 Strategic Points document includes the following ten key or strategic points that define the research focus and approach:

1. Topic - Provides a broad research topic area/title.

2. Literature review - Lists primary points for four sections in the Literature Review: (a) Background of the problem/gap and the need for the study based on citations from the literature; (b) Theoretical foundations (models and theories to be foundation for study); (c) Review of literature topics with key theme for each one; (d) Sun-unary.

3. Problem statement - Describes the problem to address through the study based on defined needs or gaps from the literature.

4. Sample and location - Identifies sample, needed sample size, and location (study phenomena with small numbers and variables/groups with large numbers).

5. Research questions - Provides research questions to collect data to address the problem statement.

6. Hypothesis/variables or Phenomena - Provides hypotheses with variables for each research question (quantitative) or describes the phenomena to be better understood (qualitative).

7. Methodology and design - Describes the selected methodology and specific research design to address problem statement and research questions.

8. Purpose statement - Provides one sentence statement of purpose including the problem statement, methodology, design, population sample, and location.

9. Data collection - Describes primary instruments and sources of data to answer research questions.

Directions:

Submit the most current draft of your dissertation research prospectus using the Prospectus Template. The draft should include revisions based on the feedback from your previous instructor as well as an abbreviated literature review. The draft should be approximately 7-9 pages in length.