APU SSGS500 Week 8 Assignment Latest 2019 July Question # 00602790 Subject: Education Due on: 07/06/2019 Posted On: 07/06/2019 08:41 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.8/5

SSGS500 Research Design and Methods

Week 8 Assignment

Research
Proposal

Assignment
Instructions

This
assignment requires you to write a proposal that states your research question
and your research strategy for addressing it.

Research
Proposal:

The
research proposal must be between 8-10 pages in length not including title page
or references.

Your title page should include the working
title of your research project, your name, date, and course title. You should also have an abstract on your
title page.

Your
proposal should have the following sections:

Introduction:
The introduction is where you identify your specific research question and
where you set the general context for the study. In this section you need to
include:

a statement
of the problem or general research question and context leading to a clear
statement of the specific research question;

background
and contextual material justifying why this case or topic should be studied;
and

a purpose
statement.

Literature
Review: This short preliminary literature review section reviews the literature
important to your specific research question. The literature review focuses on
discussing how other researchers have addressed the same or similar research
questions. It introduces the study and places it in larger context that
includes a discussion of why it is important to study this case. It provides
the current state of accumulated knowledge as it relates to your specific
research question. In this section you should:

Summarize
the general state of the literature (cumulative knowledge base) on the specific
research question. For example if you discuss other studies that have been
conducted you would summarize the researcher’s findings, how those findings
were obtained, and conduct an evaluation of biases in the findings.

This
section should provide a broad overview of the primary arguments related to the
topic and organizes the general views on the main aspects of the topic by
theme, which could be the prevailing arguments or schools of thought, or
commonly held beliefs that your particular topic may challenge.

Include a
short conclusion and transition to the next section.

In your
literature review you should also discuss the theoretical framework to be used
in the study. You should ensure you
cover the following in your discussion:

a summary
of the theory or model to be used in the study, including a diagram of the
model if appropriate;

comment on
the kinds of questions this theory has been used to answer in the past and why
it is appropriate to use in this proposed study

To really
drive this home you want to end your literature review with a discussion of the
current knowledge gaps. This is an opportunity to once again promote the
importance of your own research. How will your research fit within this larger
body of knowledge? What are you doing differently? What gaps will your research fill?

For some
additional information on how to organize your theoretical framework into your
paper, check out this USC Library guide on Theoretical Frameworks.

From here
you would then include a transition into your methodology section.

NOTE:
Literature reviews can be a bit tricky to write. Think back to how you wrote your short theory
lit review in week 4. Chances are you
already started to write in a style similar to what one does when completing a
literature review. Check out this video
(the same one you were guided to in week 4) to help you further prepare to
write this section of your proposal.
This will not be the last time that you are asked to write a literature
review in your academic career so its important to master this skill.

Research
Design and Methods: Describes how you will answer your research question or
test the hypothesis. This section describes your overall research design and
how you plan to collect, synthesize, and interpret your data. It should
include:

identification
and operationalization (measurement) of variables;

a sampling
plan (i.e., study population and sampling procedures, if appropriate);

justification
of case studies used;

data
collection/sources (secondary literature, archives, interviews, surveys, etc.);

a summary
of analysis procedures (pattern-matching, etc.); and

the
limitations of study and bias discussion.

Conclusion:
Reemphasizes the importance of your study and ties the proposal together.

Reference
List: As with all academic papers you need to references the works that you
have cited (direct quotes or paraphrases) in the text of your document and
incorporate a complete reference list or bibliography at the end. This list
needs to be in the style used within your field. APA= Criminal Justice, Turabian
for all others in this course.

Remember
that the references you use demonstrate your knowledge of the topic area. This research proposal is meant to convince
your professor that you not only have identified a worthy question in need of
investigation, but that you are also capable of carrying out the research
involved to successfully answer that question.
At the very least you should have referenced 12-15 peer-reviewed sources
in this proposal.

Since
multiple writing styles are in use within this course, on your title page,
please note which style you are using within your assignment. This will help me cater my comments to the
style you are using. The style you use
need to be the one that is used within your program of study.

Format:

Standard
academic format will suffice: 1-inch borders on all four sides, double spaced,
with times new roman 12-point font.

As you
proof read your assignment I encourage you to work with Belcher, Wendy Laura.
2009. “Editing Your Sentences” In Writing Your Journal Article in 12
Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. Sage. This resource has a nice
step by step process for enhancing your writing.

The
research paper must be submitted as a Word Document Attachment in the
Assignments section of the classroom by Sunday, 11:55pm EST at the end of week
8.

Entitled
(NameFINALW8.doc) and upload in the Assignments sections.