A goal of writing assignments is to help students develop their skills in making an argument. Restricted to matriculated doctoral students and required of all entering doctoral students. Doctoral Research Methods Courses ED 504. I Staff Provides students hands-on experience in conducting research in education with existing data sets. This doctoral course focuses on a variety of process-oriented methods and analyses that have been used successfully for studying education and human development.
Students evaluate existing research and develop short research projects of their own.
In a workshop setting, concrete strategies for composing and revising are learned, and a metacognitive awareness of students' writing processes is developed. The course explores the ways in which academic genres reflect the professional practices of educational research and publishing communities. Prerequisite for ED 514. The primary goal is to improve academic writing by learning to collaborate effectively with peers in revising scholarly writing. In revisions of their writing, students continue to practice the principles of effective expository writing at the multiple levels that were introduced in ED 513.