Your Research Problem: Aligning Elements to Expedite the Proposal Process
📅 Friday, July 12th
🕛 12:00 to 1:00 PM Eastern (New York Time)
📍 Virtual via Zoom
FREE ✨
Are you facing challenges in aligning the core elements of your research proposal?
Discover the essential steps to narrow your research problem and systematically align your research components—including the problem statement, purpose statement, research question, and theoretical/conceptual framework—to streamline your dissertation or research project. This webinar offers deep insights into effectively narrowing your research problem, guided by current peer-reviewed literature and innovative tools such as the problem funnel. Learn how to effectively use keywords in research databases to precisely define your topic, and discover strategies for harmonizing the core elements of your research. Additionally, explore the importance of using consistent language and terminology, and how to employ an alignment table tool to logically structure your research components, including literature review topics and research design.
During this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
- Refine your research problem statement with a problem funnel tool
- Select effective keywords in databases to precisely identify and focus your topic
- Align your research components using an alignment table tool
This webinar is perfect for doctoral students, faculty, and researchers who are in the process of planning their research proposal. This webinar provides foundational guidance to narrow the problem and align the elements of the research.
🚫 Can’t make the live webinar? The webinar will be recorded and shared with everyone who registers.
🔗 Register here.
About the Speaker
Chris Deason, EdD in Educational Instructional Technology, Texas Tech University
Chris earned his Doctorate in Educational Instructional Technology from Texas Tech University in 2008, focusing on Technology-Mediated Culturally Relevant After-School Programs. With eleven years of K-12 teaching experience, Chris’s dissertation explored the use of hip-hop pedagogy and digital audio workstations to enhance reading motivation in 4th and 5th graders. After transitioning from K-12 to higher education, he now teaches in the online Instructional Design and Technology Master’s program at Full Sail University.
Chris has spent the last six years as a coach and consultant for dissertation writers at Academic Coaching and Writing, LLC, where he also earned his Certified Co-Active Professional Coach (CCPC) license in 2017 from the Co-Active Training Institute. An expert in various research methodologies, Chris is a prolific scholar with publications in instructional technology and women’s leadership. He maintains memberships in several professional organizations, including AERA, SITE, and SERA. At The Dissertation Coach, Chris is dedicated to guiding clients through the dissertation process, emphasizing its personal significance beyond mere academic achievement.
