5000 Word Research Design: Outline and Requirements

Literature Review

Outline and Requirements

 

Prepare a 5000 Word research design on a topic of your choice. Based on your literature review, you will have identified important and unanswered questions with regards to your topic that includes:

1. An introduction of the proposed study that provides a discipline-specific context, highlights the significance of the study, states ‘the problem’, outlining research questions, and if relevant, hypotheses (etc.).

2. A literature review: not necessarily exhaustive, but certainly inclusive of major works/studies on that topic area and judiciously selected to be representative enough of the status of the field in which the topic belongs.

3. A research design/methodology section which describes the type of study involved: subjects, data collection procedure, method of data analysis (etc.).

4. Bibliography containing all references cited in proposal.

The proposed research design must be feasible in terms of the resources typically available to academic researchers. You will be graded on the framing of the research question; your literature review; engagement with key concepts and technical knowledge (appropriate methodology);
overall clarity of your design narrative.

Briefly explain your research interest, the literature review results, your research question, which methods you choose, why, and which data you will analyze using the same information from your paper.