This module’s Doctoral Degree Coach™ tasks and the Learning Resources introduced important skills, such as evaluating resources you find online, using database search skills to find the resources you need in the library, evaluatin...
This module’s Doctoral Degree Coach™ tasks and the Learning Resources introduced important skills, such as evaluating resources you find online, using database search skills to find the resources you need in the library, evaluating the reliability and credibility of authors and their work, using citation management software, analyzing existing research on a topic, and identifying gaps in the research, just to name a few. Now it’s time to put this knowledge to work—just to name a few. Now it’s time to put this knowledge to work.
You will begin familiarizing yourself with what has already been studied and what gaps might exist in the research. This work will help you continue to narrow down possible topic ideas for your own research.
To prepare for this Assignment, complete the following:
Review the guidance in the Doctoral Degree Coach™ and the Learning Resources in relation to searching the literature in your discipline to narrow a potential research topic.
Browse the Dissertations and Theses@Walden Links to an external site.database for published dissertations in forensic psychology to familiarize yourself with the topics already covered, and the types of problems/issues researched. For additional guidance locating a dissertation, go to “How do I find Ph.D. dissertations for specific degree programs.Links to an external site.”
Use search terms that are potential areas of interest for your own research.
Read the title and abstract of three to five dissertations that are related to your potential topic.
Select one dissertation that interests you most, read the introduction, and address the prompts provided.
State the topic of the selected dissertation and explain how the author situates the topic into the pertinent forensic psychology literature.
What is the background of this topic?
What is the social problem being addressed?
What gap in the literature did the study address?
How does this topic relate to your potential topic of interest?
TOPIC: How does poverty affect black and brown incarcerated youth?
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