Instructions

Before starting the Signature Assignment, be sure you have sourced at least 15 current (within the past five years) empirical, theoretical, or conceptual articles. In the Signature Assignment, you will present a coherent review of each article and synthesize a collective discussion of the sources under coherent research theme headings.

If you retain the same research focus for your research prospectus, this assignment may serve as an initial draft of one section of the literature review in your dissertation research proposal. Remember from Week 4 that  you first need to review the source for the categories noted in your literature review matrix/table. Then, complete the review of each source as you situate the source within the context of the additional sources grouped within your discussion.

For this assignment, your final submission should ensure the following criteria are met:

• Review and synthesize 15 research articles from peer-reviewed scholarly sources with at least 11 sources being empirical articles and no more than 4 sources from the theoretical literature and other forms of non-peer-reviewed grey literature, which may include organizational research reports, governmental analyses, etc.
• An appendix to the assignment that demonstrates the academic databases searched to source the 15 research articles used within the assignment. This appendix will be constructed from the matrix/table begun in Weeks 4 and 6 that notes the source and respective academic database or library from which it was sourced.
• The assignment must reflect doctoral-level scholarly writing and appropriate APA style. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

Length: 7 pages of synthesized literature review with 1 matrix/table as an appendix to the literature review

References: A full reference list with at least 15 sources in APA style