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Draft of Chapter 1 Walkthrough

In this video, we will learn how to create a draft of Chapter 1. The draft will serve as an introduction to your research proposal. While you will have the opportunity to revise and finalize Chapter 1 in Assessment 4, this draft should be well-developed.

One of the main goals of this assessment is to identify a specific and focused topic that relates to the field of psychology. The topic you choose will guide your search of the literature. As you identify your topic, keep in mind the characteristics and context that the population in your study inhabits. Consider the gender, developmental stage, age range, region, diagnoses or health status, intervention or therapy, assessment tools, racial identity, ethnic identity, class, history, and other specifics associated with the questions that you wish to explore.

Now that you have identified your topic and population, it is important to identify the gap in the knowledge base or the problem you wish to address. Readers of your proposal should be able to understand why this research is needed and how it would contribute to the overall knowledge pool. To help with this process, you must become familiar with existing literature. As you read the work of others, consider the following:

What types of problems are all or most of the authors attempting to address? What questions are these authors explicitly asking? What questions might they be implicitly asking?

Next, you will formulate a research question that serves as the guiding question for the proposal. A good research question begins with identifying a subject of interest that opens itself to investigation. After completing your preliminary research into existing literature on the general topic, narrow it down by asking open-ended “how” and “why” questions. If your research question is qualitative, it needs to be clear, specific, and manageable. If your research question is quantitative, turn the question into a statement that becomes your testable hypothesis. Finally, you may consider the following when evaluating the question.

The research question must be one that is of interest to the researcher and, possibly, to others. You must clarify if you are researching a new issue or problem that needs to be solved or if the research expands on a previously researched topic. Is it possible to address the research question with the time and resources available? Is the proposed methodology feasible? Is the research question comprehensive and will the research yield data that can be supported or contradicted? Is the research question either too broad or too narrow? It must be broad enough for the research to be substantial but narrow enough for you to adequately address the main aspects of your topic.

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The research question must be one that is of interest to the researcher and, possibly, to others.

It is important to provide a valid research-based rationale for your research question. The research question should determine the scope of your proposal.

Before you begin your research proposal, you must select the appropriate template, which could be either the qualitative or the quantitative template. Both templates can be found in the Required Resources section of this assessment.

The main difference between qualitative and quantitative research is the methodology you use in your research proposal.

The following sections must be included in your assessment for Chapter 1 (as you will see laid out in the template you selected).

You will start with a title page that must include a brief yet descriptive title of 15 words or less. For tips on writing titles, read the “How to Write an Effective Title and Abstract and Choose Appropriate Keywords” document linked in the Resources. In your final project, the title page must be followed by an abstract. Leave this blank for now as it will be revisited in Chapter 4.

The next section will be the table of contents. This is followed by an introduction in which you present the problem being investigated, the importance of the study, and an overview of your chosen research strategy.

The next section, the background of the problem, can be described by considering the following questions.

What do we know so far about the area of the literature that you reviewed? What do you think we need to know to advance the knowledge base? How will this new knowledge serve the stakeholders (scientists, care providers, families, patients, institutions) that may in turn be served by implementation of new developments?

The next section is the statement of the problem. Here, you will identify the gap in research or the need for additional research in your area. Have other researchers in this field acknowledged this gap? Use literature to support the statement of the problem.

In the purpose of the study section, you will describe why the problem deserves new research. This can be accomplished by clarifying if you are resolving inconsistency in previous research, extending the reach of a theory, or solving a social problem.

In the significance of the study section, you will describe how addressing the knowledge gap you identified in the previous section using the expected results of your research promises to advance the scientific knowledge base. In three sentences or more, explain how this inquiry is original.

In the research question(s) section, you will need to articulate whether the research question is qualitative or quantitative and provide a rationale for your choice. For quantitative research questions, include your hypothesis or hypotheses that guide them. Be sure to label them as RQ1 (research question 1), RQ2, etc.

The next section, definition of terms, differs depending on the template you choose. In the case of a qualitative study, the definition of terms should relate to how the participants should interpret the definitions. In the case of a quantitative study, the definition of terms should relate to how the variables will be quantified.

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In the research design section, you will discuss the method(s) you intend to use and how the research question(s) will be answered. Be sure to mention the relevant APA Code of Ethics, but not how you intend to address them. How you will address the codes and ensure that they are adhered to will be covered in Chapter 3. After this section, be sure to include a brief summary section.

Finally, your reference page section must include at least 10 scholarly, peer-reviewed articles that are less than 5 years old. Make sure they are also cited within the text. Ensure that your assessment is in Times New Roman and 12-point font and has double-spaced pages. Follow the current APA guidelines for style and format.

In this video, you learned how to create a draft for Chapter 1. In the next video, you will learn how to draft a literature review for your research proposal.

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