Course Overview
Course Description
Your reputation as a scholarly professional depends on your ability to communicate, particularly in written forms. This course will support your development as a scholar who publishes in different types of research-based publications for a variety of audiences. You will practice synthesizing multiple sources, formulating arguments, and integrating feedback through iterative drafts of your work. These are key skills you will need as you communicate your research in published manuscripts and presentations.
Course Learning Outcomes
– Determine the purposes of different types of research-based publications.
– Synthesize multiple sources of evidence that support and refute specific assertions.
– Compose scholarly essays and presentations.
– Format work products based on the editorial requirements of different audiences.
– Integrate feedback into work products.
– Examine the conventions of scholarly literature review and the
distinctions between literature review and the other forms of academic
and scholarly writing..
– Discriminate between the empirical research literature and non-
scientific grey literature considered within the scholarly literature
review.
– Cultivate the development of advanced writing skills that articulate
scholarly exposition appropriate for research in an educational
environment.
– Synthesize empirical and theoretical literature related to a focused
study problem in a scholarly, organized, non-biased, substantive
narrative.
Course Concepts
– Scholarly Writing
– Synthesizing Multiple Sources
– Editorial requirements, including APA style
– Integrating Feedback
– Sourcing Scholarly Literature
– Effective Academic Database Search Strategies
– Credibility and Worthiness of Scholarly Literature
– Systematic Review of Scholarly Sources
– Journal Article Submissions
– Conference Presentations
Course Overview
Week 1: Research topics and APA 7 style for publication
Assignment: Prepare an APA tip sheet for a potential research topic.
Week 2: Peer-reviewed, scholarly, and non-scholarly material
Assignment: Categorize scholarly and non-scholarly material,
Week 3: The importance of multiple sources if evidence
Assignment: Assemble an annotated bibliography supporting your topic.
Week 4: Systematic approach to literature review
Assignment: Prepare a review matrix.
Week 5: Editorial requirements for work products
Assignment: Specify submission requirements for two academic journals and a national conference.
Week 6: Submitting to an academic conference
Assignment: Assemble a presentation for a conference.
Week 7: Synthesize a systematic literature review
Assignment: Synthesize a 15-source literature review.
Hayden Coombs 