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=**EDF 7916  ** = = **Doctoral Dissertation Analysis Assignment** =
 * 2006 || Hall, Leigh || [| It's Not Just the Text: Interactions Between Content Area Teachers and Struggling Readers] || Michigan State University ||

EDF 7916 Analysis and synthesis of educational literature
Spring semester, 2009 Dr. David Boote Students will identify and analyze at least two of the following publication in //their// field: a) The literature review from a typical doctoral dissertation b) The literature review from an exemplary dissertation http://library.ucf.edu/CMC/NotableDissertations.asp c) A literature review article, narrative or systematic d) A literature review from an empirical article

For each literature review, students will analyze: a) citation quality of each citation (see Beile, Boote, & Killingsworth 2004) b) thoroughness (see Hjorland, 1988) c) classification using lit review taxonomy (see Cooper, 2003; Davies, Wolf, & Holmes, 2000) d) authorial voice (see Hart, 1998) e) rhetorical structure and argumentation (see Hart, 1998) f) overall quality (see Boote & Beile, 2005)

Students will then compare and contrast their selected publications to understand how thorough, sophisticated literature reviews differ from the partial summaries that characterize most educational publications. ==<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 211);">Group Members:  ==