Advanced Qualitative Reasoning and Analysis

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Assignment: Final Project Step VI

The Final Project: Building a Qualitative Research Plan document in the Learning Resources contain the instructions for organizing the work you produced in Steps I through V. Be sure to incorporate revisions to your work based on feedback from your Instructor and classmates.

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For Step VI, you are now asked to take a step back and reflect on the social change potential for your proposed research study.

You are a scholar-practitioner embarking on a research study within the context and proud tradition of Walden University’s mission of social change. How will your proposed research contribute to Walden’s mission of social change?

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Reflect on your next steps in preparation for the beginning of your capstone. Respond to the following prompts:

Progress: What progress have you made in developing your idea for a research topic for your capstone? What have you learned from the course that has contributed to your clarity?

Problems: What obstacles have you discovered in the process of developing your research topic in this course? What still remains unknown or unclear?

Plans: What are you planning as the next step for transitioning into the capstone process? Who or what resources do you think will be important in creating a research proposal that meets the criteria for quality?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.