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Identifying key words to use when conducting search strategies across differing databases is an important skill to be mastered before embarking on writing the prospectus. There are various skills involved in identifying appropriate empirical and theoretical sources for your literature review. Once you begin collecting this valuable information on your dissertation topic, you also need to organize the information so that you can compare studies and synthesize what you have learned from your literature review.

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Resources presented this week include specific strategies to assist you in conducting your literature review. For this assignment, use the Walden library to search for and retrieve at least 10 peer-reviewed articles relevant to your topic to include in your literature review. Then, create an annotated bibliography of these articles.

Follow the Walden Writing Center’s guidelines for creating an annotated bibliography. See the link to this resource, “Online Writing Center: Annotated Bibliography” in this week’s Learning Resources.

The assignment (3–5 pages total):

Part 1:

1–2 paragraphs in which you:

Restate the dissertation topic you would like to pursue. (You identified this topic in your Week 3 Discussion post.)
Identify eight key words or descriptors specific to your topic that you are using to create library search queries. Please indicate the types of Boolean operators you used for completing these queries.

Part 2:

Complete an annotated bibliography of at least 10 articles from peer-reviewed journals that you are including in your literature review.
Based on this initial literature review, write a 1-paragraph statement in which you identify one or more gaps in the literature that may justify further exploration.