Thesis Proposal
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Material-Class1v3RPMSU12020.pptxResearch Process and Methodology
Jeffrey Keefer, Ph.D. [email protected]
May 26, 2020—Summer 1
Class 1 - Selection of a Research Design
Introduction, Syllabus, & Course Overview
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Who? Where? When? Why? How?
Syllabus & Course Overview
Course Readings & Assignments
Readings Due Today…
Creswell chap 1 (text book)
APA chap 1&2 (text book)
Creswell 5 Lecture Notes - Chapter 1 The Selection of a Research Approach (in Class 1 - Selection of a Research Design folder)
Creswell 5 Slides - Chapter 1 The Selection of a Research Approach (in Class 1 - Selection of a Research Design folder)
Thesis Requirements for RPM and RPT Courses (rev. March, 2014) (in Resources folder)
Purdue OWL APA Formatting and Style Guide (Review this)
NYU Citation Style Guide: APA (Review this)
Research Process & Methodology Wikipedia Extra Credit
Ethics Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI): Human Subjects Training Program
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Due: 6/4
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What is research to you?
Research Is Like Neo . . .
Business Research
A systematic inquiry that provides
information to guide business decisions.
A process of determining, acquiring, analyzing, synthesizing, and disseminating relevant business data, information, and insights to decision makers in ways that mobilize the organization to take appropriate business actions that, in turn, maximize organizational performance.
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What is Research?
A systematic inquiry that asks and answers questions through gathering, analyzing, and making sense of data.
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Two Categories of Research
Applied
Pure / Basic
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Two MORE Categories of Research
Social Sciences
Natural Sciences
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A Research Design
Works Together
Requirements for the Thesis (Thesis Proposal)
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Chapter 1
The Selection of a Research Approach
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Break
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Welcome Back!
Questions or Thoughts?
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Illustrate an Interest
What do you want to know more about?
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Choose a Topic and Narrow It
Focus your topic . . .
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?
Citation Management Tools
Due: 6/18
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Next Steps . . .
For Thursday 5/28 . . .
Assignment #1: Identify and propose a topic for further research, along with the background or reasons why it is an important area to research, the significance of it (including those who would benefit from your research), and the ways it would add to the body of existing knowledge. This should be 2-4 pages long. Submit via NYU Classes. Follow APA 6 for all formatting. Attempt to write in the third person (try to avoid use of I, me, my, mine, or we).
Assignment #4 UCAIHS CITI Exam Passing by 6/4.
Readings:
Creswell chap 2
APA chap 3
Creswell 5 Lecture Notes - Chapter 2 Review of the Literature (in Class 2 - Initial Literature & Identifying a Research Problem folder)
Creswell 5 Slides - Chapter 2 Review of the Literature (in Class 2 - Initial Literature & Identifying a Research Problem folder)
Miller 2002 Formulating a Research Problem (in Class 2 - Initial Literature & Identifying a Research Problem folder)
Layder 2013 Developing Questions from Research Problems (in Class 2 - Initial Literature & Identifying a Research Problem folder)
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