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P14l36 Introduction to Research Methods
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
COMPONENT
2015-2016
Coursework Instructions
Your assignment is to develop a proposal for a research study that can be executed by you in three
months. A research proposal can be understood as “a statement of what the researcher is going to
investigate, why, and the method to be followed (the how) in answering the questionslgosigbd’.” It is,
in other words, a plan for research which explains or justifies why the researcher has chose-n thié f
plan or approach and not another. This means that you will NOT actually collect data, you will
NOT analyze data, and you will NOT have any results to report. A ‘ _ y I
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funding for a research project from a funder, to obtain approval to begin one’s ‘disisiw” liiifi’mu‘ 5
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from the assigned readings, but also other studies published in academic {MN