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This concise, hands-on book by author Elizabeth A. Wentz is essential reading for any graduate student entering the dissertation process in the social or behavioral sciences. The book addresses the importance of ethical scientific research, developing your curriculum vitae, effective reading and writing, completing a literature review, conceptualizing your research idea, and translating that idea into a realistic research proposal using research methods. The author also offers insight into oral presentations of the completed proposal, and the final chapter presents ideas for next steps after the proposal has been presented. Taking the view that we “learn by doing,” the author provides Quick Tasks, Action Items, and To Do List activities throughout the text that, when combined, develop each piece of your research proposal. Designed primarily for quantitative or mixed methods research dissertations, this book is a valuable start-to-finish resource.
Research Proposal
Research Proposal
Introduction
Previous chapters describe in detail how to write the content for the major sections of a research proposal. The objective now is to bring those pieces together into a cohesive document: a written research proposal. This culminating activity involves cutting and pasting, rewriting, and new writing. It is a matter of systematically and intelligently bringing the elements you have created together.
Provided here is a generic proposal structure and suggested content that is fairly common among the social and behavior sciences. Since most professors, academic units, and universities have particular guidelines or requirements for proposal structure and content, some adaptation may be required. The organization presented here, however, works for many student research projects. Keep in mind that advisors, committee members, and potentially ...
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