Reflections on Getting Published

Promoting Cognitive Complexity in Graduate Written Work: Using Bloom's Taxonomy as a Pedagogical Tool to Improve Literature Reviews

“…In the field of counselor education, there also is a lack of information on how to teach critical writing skills to graduate students. Articles related to writing literature reviews explain the process of publishing (e.g., Forman, 1988), suggest methods for improving publication success (e.g., Gladding, 1989;McGowan, 1996;Smaby & Crews, 1998), and give tips on publishing in particular journals (e.g., Brown, 1989;Hazler, 1992). No article could be located, however, that provides a model to teach students how to engage in the higher order thinking and writing skills necessary to write advanced quality literature reviews.…”