Walden Library Ed.D. Residency Student Resource Aid: Ed.D. Residency 1 Resources

Reviewing published dissertations or project studies can give you ideas for flow and organization. You can see how all the pieces work together. They are a great place to find ideas for frameworks, methodology, and tests or surveys. Finally, they can have a lot of useful resources for you in their reference list. You can look dissertations up by degree, topic, or chair.

The literature review requires organizing a variety of information. The following resources will help you develop the organizational systems you'll need to be successful.

• Organize your research
• Citation Management Software

You can make your search log as simple or complex as you would like.  It can be a table in a word document or an excel spread sheet.  Here are two examples.  The word document is a basic table where you can keep track of databases, search terms, limiters, results and comments.  The Excel sheet is more complex and has additional sheets for notes, Google Scholar log; Journal Log, and Questions to ask the Librarian.  

For a full refresher and introduction to the Walden University Library visit the Foundations Library Resources Guide from your foundations course in term one.