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Preliminary Applied Research Proposal
You have slowly been building the initial components of an applied research proposal over the last 5 w course, you will prepare your preliminary research proposal and submit it for the Unit 6 Assignment. T guide the development of your preliminary applied research proposal.
Note: Given that the preliminary proposal you complete in this course will be the basis of the final prop course, you will need to save your graded Unit 6 Assignment. Similar to CJ graduate students going o Emergency Management graduate students going on to HM598 will further refine their research propo
The research proposal should be 9–12 pages long (not including title page, reference section, or appe formatting. Each proposal should have a title page including your name, affiliation, course, professor, a
Your proposal should include the following headings and subheadings:
1. Introduction: This will be an edited version of the introduction you completed from the Unit 3 Ass
2. Problem Statement: Insert the problem statement that you created in Unit 3, making any correct feedback you received from your professor.
3. Literature Review: Insert the literature review that you completed earlier in this course after mak revisions based on feedback you received from your professor. The review should include each o the Unit 4 Assignment: a. Introduction: Revise and resubmit the introduction from your Unit
4 Assignment.
b. Theoretical Considerations: Revise and resubmit the theoretical considerations section from
c. Literature Review: Revise and resubmit the literature review section from your Unit 4 Assign
d. Summary and Conclusions: Revise and resubmit the summary and conclusions section fro 4. Research Design: Insert the elements of the research design that you completed from the Unit 4 corrections or revisions to those elements based on feedback you received from your professor. T these earlier elements, as well as new sections, as itemized below: a. Research Purpose: Revise and resubmit the research purpose from your Unit 3 Assignment b. Study Variables and Conceptual Definitions: Insert the independent and dependent variab C li h i d d i bl d h d d i bl f ll d fi i h
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Conceptualize each independent variable and each dependent variable, fully defining what w purposes of your study.
c. Research Hypothesis: Revise and resubmit the research hypothesis from your Unit 3 Assig
d. Research Goals: Revise and resubmit the goals from your Unit 3 Assignment.
e. Data
Approach: Describe whether you will take a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods the rationale for your choice, describing why this approach will most effectively permit you to t your rationale with reference to scholarly sources.
f. Ethical Considerations: Describe how you would ethically conduct your research.
Explain h human subjects and confidentiality of data for your proposed study.
5. Conclusion: Provide a summary of the problem and plan for studying the issue, emphasizing wh would be accomplished were the proposed study to be conducted.
6. References: Include full APA references for all in-text citations in the body of your research propo
7. Appendices: Include appendices, if any, to supplement the information presented in the research
