Notice this is an actual bad thing. Problems are things that are
not
good
EXAMPLE PROPOSAL:
1) A problem I want to find ways to solve/mitigate: Depression among college students.
2) How do I know it is a problem? I read an article about this in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/us/covid-college-mental-health-suicide.html
3) Who is impacted by this problem? College students, parents, college faculty, college deans
4) My Proposed Research Question:
What have researchers learned about
the causes of depression among college students,
and
how to mitigate these causes?
MY Proposal 1:
1) A
problem I want to find ways
to solve/mitigate:
2) How do I know it is a
problem? (link to article you read, or website you visited)
3) Who is
impacted by this
problem?
4) My Proposed Research Question:
What have researchers learned about
__________
________ (fill in the blank)__________
and ways to mitigate or solve this problem?
MY Proposal 2:
1) A
problem I want to find ways
to solve/mitigate:
2) How do I know it is a
problem? (link to article you read, or website you visited)
3) Who is
impacted by this
problem?
4) My Proposed Research Question:
What have researchers learned about
__________
________ (fill in the blank)__________
and ways to mitigate or solve this problem?
See page two, below!
Some options for your proposals:
What have researchers learned about the…
Effect(s) of x (variable 1) on
y (variable 2) among
z (population)
and how to solve or mitigate these effects?
What have researchers learned about the…
Impact(s) of x on
y among
z (population)
and how to solve or mitigate these impacts?
What have researchers learned about the…
Contributing factors/causes of
x and
y on
z (population)
and how to solve or mitigate these factors?
What have researchers learned about the…
Prevalence of x (the problem) in
y (the location/industry etc.)
and how to mitigate this prevalence?
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