LEAD 629 Scholar Practitioner Research

After the successful completion of doctoral coursework to date and the comprehensive examination, students will need to continue to develop their research, writing, and dissemination skills in order to become successful scholar practitioners. The course focuses on scholarly communication through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to scholarly or professional communities and made accessible for future use. Throughout the course, students will work on honing their writing skills for disseminating their research through a number of venues, including conference presentations, poster sessions, book reviews, blogs, and the gold standard of research, the journal article. Students will identify the dissemination venues that will best serve their research and professional goals. The course will also serve as a professional learning community of practice as students embark on the most challenging part of a doctoral program: research and writing the dissertation. They will learn to practice scholarly tasks in the sustained pursuit of a shared enterprise and will continue to work in their own community of practice.