Instruction
Research Proposal Writing Direction
To write up a research proposal as the final paper assignment, there should be many aspects of issues to be taken into account. You should consider 1) what exactly the topic to be studied (Purposes of the study), 2) how the topic has been studied in the past (the literature review of the past similar studies), 3) what kind of research methods you will use for the study (methodology for the study and justification of the choice), 4) what kind of samples to be studied (research participants and justifications of the choice), 5) what kind of data to be collected from the participants (describing the data variables and justification of the items used for data collection), 6) how will the data to be analyzed (types of correlation techniques, or other statistical analysis procedures), 7) what results are expected from the research (according to your literature review which provides the foundation to predict the expected correlation among variables), and 8) finally what kind of challenges and solutions you may encounter in the research process. The weekly Topic Discussions may not cover all the above-mentioned issues for your research proposal, but they will give you better ideas of the steps to form your research idea and the proposal. Without all the steps/issues to be well-considered, a proposal may be impractical, inexcusable, and/or incoherent. In other words, it will be a poorly articulated proposal.
These considerations for a research proposal are big challenges for a researcher, and they will do it step by step to form solid ideas for each of the steps and gradually complete the research proposal. The weekly TOPIC DISCUSSIONS are designed to help you think about these factors for your research proposal paper. It is possible your discussion writing be a part of your research proposal (after some revision) since discussions will make you consider each step of a research proposal. If your discussion writing deviates from your research topic, then it just helps you think about the step of your research proposal, That step of your research proposal may need a fresh session instead of what you wrote earlier in a topic discussion.