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The more you are engaged in this process, the better your learning experience will be and the more opportunities you will have to receive support from your colleagues and Chair as you work toward the completion of components leading to the PAS.

Quarter 1: There are four parts to your post this week. Make sure you respond to all parts. After reading Chapter 4 in Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process and “Writing a Problem Statement,” answer as many of the following as you can:

1. What is the working title of your PAS?
2. What is your Problem Statement?
3. What are your research questions?
4. Post your Prospectus for review as an attachment. It should be revised and updated from the feedback you received in DDPA 8300 (unless you did this earlier in the course).

ALL OTHER QUARTERS: Post a weekly update. You may also choose to discuss your experiences with completing this stage of the process, highlighting any barriers you need help eliminating.

Required Readings

Rudestam, K. E., & Newton, R. R. (2015). Surviving your dissertation: A comprehensive guide to content and process (4th ed.). London: SAGE.

• Chapter 4, “Literature Review and Statement of the Problem” (pp. 61–86)

Walden University, Center for Research Quality. (2017c). Walden Research Center, Office of Student Research Administration: Professional doctoral programs. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/researchcenter/o…

• PAS Guidelines
• PAS Rubric

Alvesson, M., & Sandberg, J. (2013). The context of constructing and formulating research questions. In Constructing research questions: Doing interesting research (pp. 10–23). Retrieved from http://methods.sagepub.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/…

Optional Resources

Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.-a). Doctoral capstone preproposal starter kit: Home. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/do…

Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.-b). Walden templates: Program-specific templates. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/te…

Dissertation Recipes. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.dissertationrecipes.com/
This site has numerous resources that will aid you in your PAS journey. It is recommended you bookmark it and refer to it often.

Walden University Library. (n.d.-a). Choosing your topic. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/topic

Walden University Library. (n.d.-b). Peer review: Limit to peer-reviewed articles. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/peer-review/limi…