Week 5 DOC/714S

View the Prospectus Guide.

Review the feedback provided to you from your RES/709: Research Conceptualization and Design faculty member.

Integrate all feedback in your RES/709: Research Conceptualization and Design course.

Transfer the information from your RES/709: Research Conceptualization and Design course Research Outline template into the appropriate sections of the Prospectus Template. You will be submitting the same Prospectus Template in Weeks 6, 7, and 8 of this course after refining and integrating feedback from the upcoming peer and faculty reviews.

Review the directions above to ensure you meet the assignment objectives.

Format the citations and references according to APA 7th-edition guidelines. Adhere to APA conventions by avoiding the use of first-person point of view. 

(Feedback: Nice job on your problem, purpose and methodology.  

This met all requirements including at least 350 words of discussion of a brief description and background of the identified problem, a fairly good purpose but did not use the appropriate key word of either examine, explain, explore, and describe (choose one) You had solid justification of why your chosen method is appropriate, using at least two scholarly sources, as required. Well done on your problem statement with a good "resulting" phrase although this needs revision for grammar. You identified the research design but did not include the type of QUAL method 

As you continue to develop your problem, here is a great resource for problem statement formulation. This is a presentation that teaches you about problem formation. You can click through the presentation to learn more about how to formulate your problem:

Dissertation Series Tutorial – Problem Formulation  )