Description

As a research component, this course provides an experience of submitting written work to a professional journal for peer review & publishing.

The journal is an essential tool for the researcher. It is comprised of pertinent, captured quotes from peer-reviewed sources. Researchers identify related peer-reviewed content, conduct a cursory read, identify relevant salient points, enter the comment (Aaha!-moment) within the journal, add key words to each entry, and appropriately cite it using APA format to include page numbers within source. When the research is complete, the journal provides an easy means for pulling together thoughts based upon the keywords defined within each journal entry. In effect, it provides rich, synthesized content to written work. See: Sample Journal.docx

Directions

Students will conduct research during modules 1-3, which will supply content for the research paper due during module 4.
1. Identify a research topic specific to project management that interests you.
2. Create a journal that will be used for the next three weeks.
3. Conduct a search for a minimum of 3 relevant peer-reviewed articles per week (total of 9 articles by the end of week 3).

1. Use the Welder Library (Links to an external site.) for searching scholarly journals.

4. Add journal entries that are relevant and expand upon your research topic. As a rule of thumb, a minimum of one journaled page PER assigned reading chapter, or article. Full or excerpted quotes must be cited per APA: (Author (s), publication date, page number) following each quote – in quotation marks.
5. Submit/re-submit the journal with new journal entries for each module on or before the due date. Do not create a new journal for each module.

Please review rubric to ensure full points are obtained: Research Journal Rubric.pdf

The course text is:

A Guide to the

PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE

(PMBOK® GUIDE ) Seventh Edition