Research Proposal

Your research proposal or prospectus is a document proposing a research project that you’d be interested in furthering for academic and/or scientific explorations. This proposal consists of three chapters that detail your research problem and questions, what current literature in the field already says, and how you plan to study the phenomenon of choice. The features below pulls together all your hard work that you’ve completed already into one original document for submission. APA guidelines should be used for all formatting and reference citations. Examples of “Title Page”, “Table of Contents”, and “References” are also found on eLearn. Please note the following outline and proposed point totals

Title Page (2)

Table of Contents (2)

Chapter 1 (10)

Introduction (2)

Significance of the Problem (2.5)

Problem Statement &Appropriate Research Questions (2.5)

Nature of the Study (1)

Brief description of methodology

Conceptual Framework

Key Terms (1)

Limitations (1)

Chapter 2 (7)

Introduction (1)

Summarize significance and problem statement

Restate research questions

State the content to be reviewed, strategy used for searching literature, and organization of review

Organizational Flow (2)

Thoroughness of Review (2)

Review of literature is clearly related to problem statement

Discussion of empirical and qualitative studies related to your research

Analytical Quality of Review (2)

Discuss comparison and contrasting of differing perspectives from differing research

Detail where gap exists for your research to fill

Conclusion

Summarize main points of literature review

Chapter 3 (7)

Introduction (1)

Summarize significance and problem statement

Restate research questions

Thorough description and justification of logical and appropriate study design (1)

Data Collection (2) – Thorough description how you plan to collect data in detail

Sampling Techniques

Setting of the study

Participants of study

What “appropriate” data needs to be collected?

How will you collect data?

Data Analysis (2) – Thorough description of examples and methods of data analysis. Analysis should be consistent with type of study

Procedures

Software?

Techniques (coding, statistical analysis – descriptive and inferential)

Conclusion (1)

Summary

Validity

Reliability

References (2)

Total Points = 30

All writing components should be written in an academic tone. Additional points can be taken off for excessive spelling, grammatical, or organizational errors.

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