Purpose and Goals
Topic 3: Background and Introduction

This topic has been designed with the goal of supporting candidates to write, organize, and reflect critically on the components that will comprise her/his draft of Chapter 1 of the dissertation.

Learning Goals

• Describe the components of Chapter 1
• Write a problem paragraph
• Generate a logical argument, purpose statement
• Write a background of the problem
• Compose study questions
• Match a study design with the study questions
• Identify the significance of the study
• Write the remaining components (Definitions, Limitations, Delimitations, etc.) of Chapter 1
• Integrate the components into a coherent chapter