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)