Module 5: Assignment: Your Research Plan:

41819The major project for this course is the Research Paper, which you will complete in steps throughout the course in order to submit a polished version of the essay in Module 10. In your proposal you identified a problem statement and a general plan to approach your research, and in the bibliography you identified secondary sources which informed your views on the topic. At this stage you will develop a data collection plan. The resulting plan should include:

Research questions which are based on your problem statement and which can be answered through the information you collect
A description of what kinds of data (such as quantitative or qualitative) will answer your questions and why
An identification of what specific methods you will employ to collect this data, such as surveys, interviews, archival research, and so on
A plan for collecting that data. Specifics will help on this point. If you are conducting interviews, draft some interview questions. If a survey, what questions will the survey ask and what responses will it collect?
While there aren’t fixed estimates for the length of your plan, expect that this stage of the assignment will run to about 400-600 words. Follow APA style format for this document.