Read the entire Prospectus Template to understand the requirements for writing your Prospectus. Each section contains a narrative overview of what should be included in the section and a table with criteria required for each section.
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Dissertation Prospectus
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<Insert Submission Date>
<Insert Chair Name>
| Prospectus Instructions: 1. Read the entire Prospectus Template to understand the requirements for writing your Prospectus. Each section contains a narrative overview of what should be included in the section and a table with criteria required for each section. These criteria will be used to assess the prospectus for overall quality and feasibility of the proposed research study. 2. As you draft each section, delete the narrative instructions and insert your work related to that section. Use the criteria table for each section to ensure that you address the requirements for that particular section. Do not delete/remove the criteria table as this is used by you and your Committee to evaluate your prospectus. 3. Prior to submitting your prospectus for review by your Chair or Methodologist, use the criteria table for each section to complete a self-evaluation, inserting what you believe is your score for each listed criteria into the Learner Self-Evaluation column. 4. The scoring for the criteria ranges from a 0-3 as defined below. Complete a realistic and thoughtful evaluation of your work. Your Chair and Methodologist will also use the criteria tables to evaluate your work. 5. Your Prospectus should be between 6-10 pages when the tables are deleted. |
| Score | Assessment |
| 0 | Item Not Present |
| 1 | Item is Present, But Does Not Meet Expectations: Not all components are present. Large gaps are present in the components that leave the reader with significant questions. All items scored at 1 must be addressed by learner per reviewer comments. |
| 2 | Item Approaches Meeting Expectations, But Needs Revision: Component is present and adequate. Small gaps are present that leave the reader with questions. Any item scored at 2 must be addressed by the learner per the reviewer comments. |
| 3 | Item Meets Expectations: Component is addressed clearly and comprehensively. No gaps are present that leave the reader with questions. No changes required. |
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Dissertation Prospectus
Introduction
The Prospectus is 6-10 page document that serves as a road map for the dissertation. It provides the essential framework to guide the development of the dissertation proposal. The Prospectus builds on the 10 Strategic Points (shown in Appendix A). The Prospectus will be expanded to become your dissertation proposal (Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of your dissertation), which will in turn, be expanded to become the complete dissertation (Chapters 1-5). Prior to developing the Prospectus, the 10 Strategic Points should be reviewed with the Chair and Committee to ensure the10 Strategic Points are aligned and that you have a clear, defined, and a doable study. Your 10 Strategic Points should be included in Appendix A of this Prospectus document.
The Introduction section broadly describes the research focus that will be addressed by the dissertation and why that focus is worthy of further investigation. The Introduction should clearly define how the study will extend prior research. Additionally, it should identify examples of the studies on the topic that illustrate the current research. It is also important to ensure the Prospectus is well written from the very first draft. Prior to submitting it to the Committee Chair, ensure paragraphs are developed that (1) contain a topic sentence defining the focus of the paragraph, (2) discuss only that single topic, (3) contain three to seven sentences, and (4) include a transition sentence to the next paragraph or section. The sentences should also be structurally correct, short, and focused. Throughout the dissertation process, learners are expected to always produce a well-written document. Committee members and the AQR reviewers will not edit writing. If it is not well written, reviewers will provide a high-level, general comment on the overall areas that need to be improved before they will review the document again.
| Criteria (Required Components): score 0-3 | Learner Self-Evaluation Score (0-3) | Chair or Reviewer Evaluation Score (0-3) |
| Introduction This section briefly overviews the research focus or problem, why this study is worth conducting, and how this study will be completed. The recommended length for this section is one paragraph. | ||
| 1. Dissertation topic is introduced. | ||
| 2. Describes how the study extends prior research or fills a “need” or “defined gap” from current literature. | ||
| NOTE: This Introduction section elaborates on Point #1(the Topic) from the 10 Strategic Points . This Introduction section provides the foundation for the Introduction section in Chapter 1 of the Proposal. | ||
| NOTE: When writing this section ensure it has a logical flow, as well as uses correct paragraph structure, sentence structure, tense, punctuation, and APA format. | ||
| Comments from the Evaluator: |
Background of the Problem
The Background of the Problem section of the Prospectus uses the literature to provide the reader with a brief historical perspective of the problem or research gap the study will address. A gap is defined as a need or opportunity that has been identified in the existing body of research literature (empirical research articles or dissertations). A gap is not defined as research on a topic for which there is no related research in the existing body of literature. A dissertation research topic must emerge from the existing body of research literature and not from a personal agenda. From this section, the reader should be able to discern how and when this problem originated and how it developed over time. This section, then, defines the current problem, that needs to be studied based on the literature and prior studies on the topic. This section must include citations from the past 5 years of the literature that clearly present evidence defining the current problem or opportunity that needs to be further researched. The studies referenced should help to justify the need for your specific research study.
| Criteria (Required Components): score 0-3 | Learner Self-Evaluation Score (0-3) | Chair or Reviewer Evaluation Score (0-3) |
| Background of the Problem The background section explains both the history of and the present state of the problem and research focus. The recommended length for this section is two-three paragraphs. | ||
| 1. Identifies the “need,” or “defined gap” that will lead to the research problem statement in a following section. Citations from the literature in the last 5 years describe the problem as a current “need” or “gap” for further research. | ||
| 2. Discusses how the “need” or “defined gap” has evolved historically into the current problem or opportunity to be addressed by the proposed study. | ||
| 3. ALIGNMENT: The problem statement for the dissertation will be developed from and justified by the “need” or “defined gap” that is described in this section and supported by the Literature. | ||
| NOTE: This Background of the Problem section uses information from Point #2 (Literature Review) in the 10 Strategic Points . This Background of the Problem section becomes the Background of the Study in Chapter 1 in the Proposal. It is then expanded to develop the comprehensive Background to the Problem section in Chapter 2 (Literature Review) in the Proposal. | ||
| NOTE: When writing this section ensure it has a logical flow, as well as, uses correct paragraph structure, sentence structure, tense, punctuation, and APA format. | ||
| Comments from the Evaluator: |
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