Question: For this discussion, you will be dusting off your skills as a consumer of research and begin to build your eye for a critical examination of research methods and designs and conventions for scholarly publications.

Using the assigned reading reporting on a study of dissertations in CACREP-accredited doctoral programs, identify the following elements of the study in a bullet-pointed list:

• Date of publication.

• Journal title.

• Authors and affiliations.

• Need for the study.

• Research question (or questions).

• Population sampled.

• Research method (quantitative or qualitative).

• Method (or methods) of data collection.

• Results (brief list of findings).

• Discussion (implications of findings).

• Limitations.

• Recommendations for further research.

Referring to Chapter 2 in your APA manual and the conventions for manuscript structure and content of manuscripts, evaluate how well Borders et al. (2015) conformed to expectations for scholarly publication of research results.

Article: Dissertations in CACREP-Accredited Counseling Doctoral Programs: An Initial Investigation (By L. DiAnne Borders, Kelly L. Wester, Melissa J. Fickling, and Nicole A. Adamson)