+1 862 207 3288 Instructions Overview: The purpose of the Research Design Paper is to detail your idea of a sound study design based around your topic
of interest. Pretend you are a researcher. You will NOT conduct a study/research, but instead you will write a detailed study proposal
on your topic. Therefore, through the paper, you will describe and define YOUR mock study design on your topic of interest. You will
use future tense & refer to yourself as “this researcher will…” instead of “I will” throughout the paper.
Paper Requirements: This paper must include ALL of the following sections and will be approximately 6 or more full pages (not including
Title and Reference pages):
I. Introduction & Methodology: Introduce your topic. Then, define and introduce the overall research design (i.e. methodology) you’re
proposing to use to study this topic. Discuss and define if you are proposing a Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed Methods design and
your rationale for this chosen methodology.
II. Research Questions: Research questions are the broad scope of what you’re trying to understand or determine in research. Research
Questions should be clear, written in question format, and imply that the possibility of a solution is through research.
III. Hypothesis and/or Central Questions: You will write your hypothesis statement for a Quantitative design or your Central Question
(s) for a Qualitative design. You will include both an hypothesis and central question(s) for a mixed methods design. (Additional notes
can be provided for more details/definitions on hypothesis vs. central questions after I place this order)
IV. Sample: You will detail your sampling methods, procedures, and ideal sample specifically by describing the following:
Identify and define your specific probability or non probability sampling method(s).
Give details about your intended sample size, sample population parameters (inclusion/exclusion criteria), AND describe your rationale
for your intended sample.
Describe your plans for recruiting a sample to partake in your study. What are the necessary procedures in obtaining your sample, based
on your design and sampling method?
V. Data Collection: Define and outline your data collection plans, specifically include:
Define your chosen research design (experimental, observational, longitudinal, case study, etc)
Describe how you would collect data based on that specific design. Specifically, include details about your Quantitative or Qualatative
procedures & instruments. You must provide sample questionnaire questions or interview questions of your intended
instrument/interview/data collection tool. *Cite the author of any and all instruments you plan to use or replicate.
Clearly state your variables and which ones are dependent vs. independent.
Include information about how you would achieve validity and reliability (or credibility, dependability, etc for qualitative). *Cite
the author of any and all instruments you plan to use or replicate.
VI. Data Analysis: What would happen after the data is collected? Define the steps you would take to analyze your data and achieve
“results”. Specifically:
Provide details of how and what you would do to take the collected data and convert it for analysis (i.e. converting answers for
statistical analysis or transcribing interviews for Qualitative analysis).
List AND cite the statistical methods OR steps in your coding process to analyze your quantitative or qualitative data. Discuss why
these would be the best methods to use & how they could serve to answer your research question(s), hypotheses and/or central questions.
VII. Conclusions: Demonstrate critical thinking by including –
Limitations: After having a chance to study this topic over the course of the term and process your study design, list and explain 3
potential limitations of your study.
Suggestions for Future Research: Based on your limitations, include suggestions and ideas for future studies. Discuss what other
studies may want to look at based on what you learned from yours, or how the next researcher can use your study to understand a similar
phenomenon in a new way.
Summary: conclude your paper with a summary of your topic & proposed study methods. Summarize how your study can help the field and
pull together key components of the paper. For instance, take main ideas from your statement of problem/purpose, methodology, and a few
key supportive references and bring everything together, summarizing what you’ve concluded and/or how these tie in to one another
conclusively.
APA format for works cited/referenced using scholarly materials
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