My Discipline: Organizational development and leadership
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Review “Prologue: Planning Your Project—An Overview,” Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 in The Craft of Research.
Review The Ultimate Cheatsheet for Critical Thinking.
In this assignment, you will refine your general topic to distill specific, researchable questions.
Long description
Choose a broad topic from your discipline that interests you. In your paper,
Summarize existing information on this topic.
Discuss who, what, when, where, how, and why, as well as context and other questions suggested by your sources in order to develop your focus.
Refer to the Writing Center’s Narrowing Topic and Developing a Research Question resource for additional guidance.
Present a list of at least 10 specific and distinct questions about your topic.
Evaluate each of the questions you have developed. In your evaluation, address the following questions.
Does the existing literature address each of these questions?
Which is most significant and why?
How will the answer to this question solve a practical or conceptual problem?
The Refining Research Questions paper
must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Styleas outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word resource.
must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
title of paper in bold font
space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
student’s name
name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
course name and number
instructor’s name
due date
must utilize academic voice.
See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.
must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions and Writing a Thesis Statement, refer to the Writing Center resources.
must use at least 10 peer-reviewed sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view Quick and Easy Library Researchtutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper guide.
must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center.
See the APA: Formatting Your References List resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
