Thesis Proposal
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Material-Class2v2RPMSU12020.pptxResearch Process and Methodology
Jeffrey Keefer, Ph.D. [email protected]
May 28, 2020—Summer 1
Class 2 - Initial Literature & Identifying a Research Problem
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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?
A systematic inquiry that asks and answers questions through gathering, analyzing, and making sense of data.
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Requirements for the Thesis (Thesis Proposal)
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Library Databases and Accessing Research
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Library Databases
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Accessing Research
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Method of Inquiry Table
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Chapter 1
The Selection of a Research Approach
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The Introduction
Chapter 5
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Let’s Review: Class 1 - Selection of a Research Approach
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Let’s Review . . .
What are some differences between qualitative and quantitative research approaches?
What are the 3 components of a research approach?
What is a philosophical worldview? What are the 4 that Creswell describes?
What is a research design?
What are research methods?
(Slides - Chapter One - The Selection of a Research Approach)
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APA 6
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Margins
Font
Paragraph (spacing, indents)
Heading 1 & 2
Citations (In-Text)
References
Running heads
Page numbers
(Purdue OWL APA Formatting and Style Guide & NYU Citation Style Guide: APA)
Areas of Interest > Researchable Topics are all around Us!
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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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What do you want to know more about?
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What thoughts or feelings come to you? What else do you want to know?
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Choose a Topic and Narrow It
Focus your topic . . .
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?
Next Steps . . .
Citation Management Tools
Due: 6/18
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For Tuesday 6/2 . . .
Assignment #2: Revise proposal topic based on Thursday’s discussion. Create all the Level 1 & 2 section headings for your proposal following the RPM>RPT document, including those that are still only placeholders. Follow APA 6 guidelines. Include spots for the Abstract (pg. 2) and Table of Contents (pg. 3) as well. We will complete these sections over the course. Locate and include 3 (peer-reviewed, academic) research articles for your proposal as in-text citations and include in the References. Submit via NYU Classes. Follow APA 6 for all formatting.
Have your information about your 3 Peer-reviewed articles on the Method of Inquiry Table found in NYU Classes > Resources.
Readings per the syllabus.
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