For this assignment, you should review all of the previous assignments and feedback given by your

Researchers who outline their project well before writing their narrative, usually produce a much better proposal, with improved clarity, and the process is much easier. This assignment will build upon the work you have done throughout the course so far, editing any aspects that have changed or need to be revised based on previous feedback, to produce an outline of your research design and methodology. In many ways, your methodology is the most important part of your research proposal. Without a well-written methodology, your proposal is simply an idea, vision, or dream. A proposal should be a plan. It ties together the details of what you are doing, why, and how. It especially focuses on answering the question “how” to yourself and your reader. The high standard of a well-written methodology is that another researcher in your field should be able to take your paper as written, and go conduct your research without asking you any questions (with perhaps few exceptions).  The methodology for your final paper should be written with this in mind, and this assignment outlining your project and methodology will be very helpful for assuring that you are able to do that.

Instructions

For this assignment, you should review all of the previous assignments and feedback given by your instructor. It will also be helpful to review a number of additional research articles on your topic if you have not already done so. You will be required to utilize a larger number for your final papers than you have used so far in previous assignments, so it would be helpful to review those now to further develop your design and methodology for this assignment. You may want to use the template for the Literature Review/Problem Statement: Research Development Assignment submitted previously to help you with your additional literature review, though you should not submit that for this assignment.

For this assignment, you will simply complete each and every item in the Design and Methodology: Research Development Assignment Template associated with this assignment, and submit that template for grading. You should not submit a written paper for this assignment. However, you will use the template from this assignment to help you write your final paper in module eight.

Note that while each answer should be thorough and complete, it should also be succinct. This is not a narrative, but an outline. Keep that in mind as you answer each of these questions.

-Answers must be in complete sentences except where indicated/applicable, written in professional/academic language, and references must be in current APA format.

-Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.