Final Research Format paper
Title of the Paper
Introduction: Should include the topic of your paper. Explain the context, the background.
Problem Statement: What issue/problem/concern are you responding to in your research? Given we are not developing a separate literature review for this class paper, include previous research findings/literature in the introduction/problem statement section as well. (Paragraph 1)
Research Question: Given what you told us about the problem/issue/context in the Introduction, what is the specific Research Question you would like to answer in your research. The RQ should start with a Question word (what/which factors lead to (quantitative), what are the reasons for, what causes X (quantitative), how (qualitative), why (qualitative), (Paragraph 2)
Purpose of your Study: In this paragraph explain why this topic is important and reiterate what you want to accomplish by doing your research. For example: By conducting this research I want to show how companies can improve employee engagement OR The purpose of this study to understand the factors that cause XYZ so we can develop appropriate policies to address this issue (Paragraph 3)
Methodology: What is the chosen methodology of the research paper?
Multi-methods: Survey questionnaire and interview questionnaire
Explain the survey portion and the qualitative portion of your research (remember the two portions are complementing each other)
Explain how you have selected your sample for each portion of your research.
Explain how you have conducted the survey and interview (how will you approach the potential participants? how will the participants access the survey? how will you get the surveys back? How will you schedule the interview, where will you meet?)
Include your survey and interview questionnaire in your paper.
Analysis: Explain how you analyzed your survey questionnaire data and interview questionnaire data.
Survey Data needs to be analyzed using statistical tools to examine correlation between IV and DV. You also would report descriptive analysis (demographic data). You can disaggregate the data and analyze by gender, age, position, SES etc.
Interview Data needs to be analyzed using coding and thematic techniques (will discuss later today)
Findings/Conclusion:
PS: please make a presentation PowerPoint on this paper
