PROJECT: WRITING A SOCIAL RESEARCH REPORT
Project Introduction:
This project will require you to complete a research report in two parts. In the first part, you will prepare a rough draft of your research report, which will include your research question, methodology, and literature review.
In the second part, you will incorporate your instructor’s feedback and create a report with more details on your research design and information about your data collection methods. You will provide the APA citation for all the sources that you will use in the project.
Course Learning Objectives Covered:
1. Define the systematic process of scientific inquiry and social research.
2. Describe different types of research terms and methodologies and their purposes.
3. Compare and contrast the methods and specific uses of quantitative and qualitative research.
4. Evaluate the methodology, evidence, and conclusions of others’ qualitative research.
5. Gather research data from indirect data sources.
6. Analyze the challenges and ethical issues involved with social research.
7. Write an original qualitative research question to draw valid conclusions about a socially relevant topic.
8. Define types of data sources used in social research.
9. Analyze and develop an appropriate method for collecting data for qualitative research.
10. Synthesize data, research findings, and potential ethical considerations by designing and working on a qualitative research project.
11. Make a presentation of research design and data collection methods.
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PROJECT SUBMISSION PLAN Project Part
Description/Requirements of Project Part
Evaluation Criteria
Project Part 1
Assessment Preparation Checklist:
Read Chapters 2, 3, and 7 from your textbook, Research Methods and Society: Foundations of Social Inquiry. These readings focus on the strategies and ethics involved in research. In addition to this, it also focuses on the indirect and scientific methods of data collection.
Review the Module 4 online lesson, which discusses guidelines to prepare the rough draft of a research paper.
Title: Draft Social Research Report
In Project Part 1, you will prepare a rough draft of your research report, which will include your research question, methodology, and literature review.
To complete this project part:
Add details about your research question. Why do you think it will add to existing knowledge in that field?
Add details about the research methodology that you used in this research and your rationale for selecting the research methodology.
Add details about the literature review that you conducted in this research.
The Project Part 1 rubric will be used to evaluate this assessment.
Submission Requirements:
Submit your responses in a Microsoft Word document of the following specifications:
o Font: Arial; 12-Point
o Line Spacing: Double
o Length: 3–5 pages, excluding cover page and references
Include an APA title page. Refer to the sample APA title page given in the handout titled “APA Title Page Format” at the end of the study guide.
Cite three sources in APA format in-text and on the References List page.
Due: Module 4
Grading Weight: 15%
Project Part 2
Assessment Preparation Checklist:
Read Chapters 5, 10, 11, and 12 from your textbook, Research Methods and Society: Foundations of Social Inquiry. These readings focus on designing social experiments, analyzing data analysis, and preparing the final research report.
Review the Module 6 online lesson, which discusses ways to incorporate the instructor’s feedback in the draft research and prepare the final research report.
Title: Final Social Research Report
Now, it is time to revise and expand your Project Part 1: Draft Social Research Report based on the feedback you have got from your instructor. To help you expand your
The Project Part 2 rubric will be used to evaluate this assessment.
report, use the additional research you have done to support your view.
To complete this project part:
Add details about the research design that you used for this research report.
Add details about the data collections methods that you used in this research report.
Submission Requirements:
Submit your responses in a Microsoft Word document of the following specifications:
o Font: Arial; 12-Point
o Line Spacing: Double
o Length: 5–7 pages, excluding cover page and references
Include an APA title page. Refer to the sample APA title page given in the handout titled “APA Title Page Format” at the end of the study guide.
Cite three sources in APA format in-text and on the
