Methodology And Rationale Instructions 600 Words

Methodology and Rationale Instructions

Prompt: In 300 words describe a hypothetical methodology for studying your research topic. In the same document, in 300 words, create a rationale justifying studying your topic to your audience. In addition to a specific explanation of how you will test your research question, your methodology should explain how you will analyze the data and how you would recognize a significant result. ****In your rationale, the question you are answering is this:***** *******Why is your research proposal a good way to study this problem, and WHY SHOULD WE FUND THIS RESEARCH ? ****************Pretend you are convincing a board of academics in this field that your research proposal is worth financial support. 

Requirements:

1. Do not use first or second person in the rationale, but you may use first person in the methodology.

2. In addition to a specific explanation of how you will test your research question, your methodology should explain how you will analyze the data and how you would recognize a significant result.

3. ****In your rationale, the question you are answering is this:***** *******Why is your research proposal a good way to study this problem, and WHY SHOULD WE FUND THIS RESEARCH ? ****************Pretend you are convincing a board of academics in this field that your research proposal is worth financial support. 

4. Your grammar, spelling.

5. ***********Use APA formatting; NO Abstract or Title Page is required but do include a reference page if you use sources. *****************************

Additional Suggestions for Methodology:

1. Look up methodologies in the journal articles you have been researching and use those as models and guides. 

2. Everyones methodology will look a little bit different. Your methodology may include an experiment with two groups getting different treatments, one group that gets tested before and after a treatment, or a large group of people filling out a survey. Or you may be suggesting a research proposal that involves reading literature and analyzing it. 

3. Remember that simply reading textbooks or other journal articles is just secondary research. A good methodology does primary research and finds new information rather than just compiling old information, so do not include a methodology that proposes reading articles. 

4. Whatever you do, make sure that your results cannot be brought into question. For instance, if you wanted to test the effects of a drug on humans and did not clarify what humans, I might wonder if your results would be skewed because more or fewer men or women could be in different experimental groups than in the others. Be specific about your demographics or aspects of your methodology.

5. Or if you were doing a study of postmodern literature but did not say when