Chapter 4: Writing Strategies and Ethical Considerations

This is the Format for which type of world view proposal?

-Introduction

-Procedures

-Ethical Issues

-Preliminary Findings

-Expected impact of Study

This is a formate for a Quanitative or Qualitative Proposal?

-Introduction

-A literature Review

-Methods

-Results

-Discussion

This is the format for which type of proposal?

-Purpose statement/ research question (for both Quantitative and Qualitative)

-Rationale

-Design Elements

Visual Diagram of procedures

Ideas tie together and logically flow from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph

Useful for connecting sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph

What are the 5 Components for a proposal introduction?

• Establish the problem leading in the study

• State your problem at the very beginning of your study

• Review literature about the problem

• Identify deficiencies in the literature and target the audience

• Identify the purpose of the proposed study

Why is the Introduction important?

• Reaches out to a specific audience

• It gives a summary of your study so the reader can know what to expect

• It sets the stage for the project and creates reader interest

• Placed the study within the larger audience

What is a research problem?

• A problem or issue that leads to the need for a study

• It is just a every day problem that can be researched on

• Nothing

• Just a normal problem

A brief summary of the contents of a study

An abstract allows the reader to what?

• NA

• NA

• Read a summary of the research

• Quickly survey the essential elements of a study