Assignment 9: Draft Proposal

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Research Proposal Final Checklist

“People take your work more seriously if it looks good”

YES NO Does your Research Proposal look good? Review the look and feel of your submission. Does it look really professional? Will you and I be proud of what we submit to the department as your thesis? Would your mother be proud?

YES NO Did you spell and grammar check you document? Really? Did you?

Grammarly Score: Plagiarism Score: %

YES NO Does your proposal include the proper cover page?

YES NO Did you use double line spacing? Everywhere? Even in some of your lists? It’s required. (Not tables.)

YES NO Did you use Times Roman 12 pitch font for all your text?

YES NO Did you use the template provided? Does it have a running head? Did you remove the words running head? Did you remove all comments, notes and other instructions for the instructor?

YES NO Did you position your figures in the center of the page? Did you adjust their size so they bleed over the margin as little as possible yet are legible?

YES NO Did you number ALL your figures? Did make the numbering scheme consecutive from first to last? Do you have a figure caption for ALL figures? Did you use non-italic 12 pitch Times Roman font, same as text. Did you center them under the figure? Tables must be considered figures for this element.

YES NO Did you insert page numbers? Not on the cover page or title pages. Page numbers should be either centered or right aligned.

YES NO Did you include the References as the last elements in the proposal? It is in APA style? Use Zotero and Goggle Scholar to get them in APA style easily. References should not be numbered. They should be double spaced.

YES NO Did you include your hypothesis and IV and DV variables?

YES NO Does each chapter start in a new page? Did you add page beaks in appropriate sections to make sure no section appears broken up by a page break inappropriately? Also, if possible, leave no widow elements of a section to be completed in the next page.

YES NO Do you have a Table of Contents? Did you update it every time you moved things around?

YES NO Does your overall document length exceed 30 pages. It should. Did you leave anything out that would add value? Add it.

YES NO Did you save the document as a .doc before submitting it as a draft to your faculty? This allows for insertion of comments by faculty to improve your submission.

YES NO Do you have an Abstract? Do you have keywords? Did you insert a new line between abstract and keywords?

YES NO Is your proposal Title appropriate to the topic?

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