I found direct essays, anyone know about them? My friend used Graduate Writer with excellent results, but he's a graduate student, I'm a college guy.
Btw - here is a sample of his project requirements related to Management Theory Creation or whatever that means.
Review Concept Map
OverviewThe focus in this course is on learning how to pursue a topic of inquiry, and on developing the knowledge and skills to be able to conduct analytic literature reviews that begin to focus on research philosophy and methodology. It is our belief that if you succeed in learning how to read the literature as a PhD scholar-practitioner does, and also learn to identify and pursue topics, that you will have plenty of researchable topics from which to select a dissertation topic down the road.
Throughout this course you will be acquiring new knowledge about research philosophy, theory building, and various methodological approaches used by researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. In addition, you will be developing skills used to read, analyze, critique, and report on three common types of articles found in scholarly journals. This assignment presents you with the opportunity to pull together this knowledge and skills in conducting an analytic review of the literature examining a sample of articles on an inquiry topic of your choosing.
This type of literature review represents a blending of activities undertaken by professionals between the type of review that a masters-level practitioner might perform primarily as a consumer of research and the more in-depth review of the literature that a PhD scholar-practitioner conducts as a producer of research who contributes to the knowledge base in their field.
This reflects the expanded focus for reviewing the literature of the PhD that includes both content-related (what was studied, and what has not been studied) and process-related (the methods of how studies were conducted) features of the literature aimed at uncovering limitations, implications, and recommendations for theory, practice, and future research. This also entails providing a more sophisticated critique of the research based on an intermediate level of understanding basic threats to validity and reliability.
Remember that a defining characteristic of the PhD scholar-practitioner is that they ground their work in the extant literature. This is true regardless of the source of the topic from which a study might emerge or the purpose of the study. For instance, even if a management question emerges in a very localized setting-such as in your workplace-and the purpose of pursuing a study about a local phenomenon is to inform management decisions, the true scholar-practitioner will turn to the literature to determine what, if anything, has been done by others on this or a closely related topic. The failure to adequately review the literature on a topic could result in unnecessary costs due to needlessly covering the same ground as others, but without benefiting from their experiences.Project ObjectivesTo successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:
Critically review the seminal works and more recent literature-including theoretical articles, literature reviews, and research articles-in terms of identifying the underlying research tradition(s) and philosophical assumptions that have guided this work and the methodological approaches used in conducting research on the selected topic.
Identify key components of a study, including the problem or opportunity statement, research question(s), purpose statement, and methodological approach, and assess the degree to which these are internally consistent.
Analyze the threats and limitations of the study's external validity and generalizability based on an assessment of the participants and setting.
Identify strengths and limitations of the theory and research on a particular topic based on the philosophical orientation to and methodological approaches used in research on a selected topic, and the implications of this work on theory, practice, and future research.
Provide clear recommendations for future research based either on the author-identified recommendations of the work you reviewed, or based on your own analysis of and synthesis across the literature you reviewed.
Present a review of the literature using all three levels of reviewing the literature demonstrating doctoral-level writing skills, including use of APA form and style.
Reflect upon and discuss your own current philosophical and methodological preferences, and how these might influence your work as a scholar-practitioner.