Assignment:
Create a 500 words:
Creswell (2014,Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches)
Describes writing as a way of thinking and offers strategies to enhance the writing process.
Identify two (2) writing strategies (use attached document) and discuss the value of each and how you will apply them.
Before designing a proposal, it is important to have an idea of the general structure or outline of the topics and their order. The structure will differ depending on whether you write a quantitative, qualitative, or a mixed methods project. Another general consideration is to be aware of good writing practices that will help to ensure a consistent and highly readable proposal (or research project). Throughout the project, it is important to engage in ethical practices and to anticipate the ethical issues prior to the study that will likely arise. This chapter provides outlines for the overall structure of proposals, writing practices that make proposals easy to read, and ethical issues that need to be anticipated in proposals.
WRITING THE PROPOSAL
Arguments Presented in a Proposal
It is helpful to consider early in planning the study the major points that need to be addressed in a proposal. These points-or topics-all need to be interconnected to provide a cohesive picture of the entire project. For me, these topics seem to span all proposals, whether the project is qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods. I think that a good place to start is by examining Maxwell's (2005) list of the core arguments that need to be advanced in any proposal. I will summarize them in my own words:
1. What do readers need to better understand your topic?
2. What do readers need to know about your topic?
3. What do you propose to study?
4. What is the setting, and who are the people you will study?
5. What methods do you plan to use to collect data?
6. How will you analyze the data?
7. How will you validate your findings?
8. What ethical issues will your study present?
9. What do preliminary results show about the practicability and value of the proposed study?
These nine questions, if adequately addressed in one section for each question, constitute the foundation of good research, and they could provide the overall structure for a proposal. The inclusion of validating findings, ethical considerations (to be addressed shortly), the need for preliminary results, and early evidence of practical significance focus a reader's attention on key elements often overlooked in discussions about proposed projects.