Week+6+Final+Project

 **Final Project: Part II: Research Proposal**  **Due: August 6, 2011**

 **I. Introduction**  Introduce your research study by discussing briefly the background to your topic and why your study is important.

 **II. Literature Review**  Insert literature review from Part I. If necessary, revise according to feedback received.

 **III. Research Questions or Hypotheses**  Depending on what type of research you do, qualitative (RQs) or quantitative (Hypotheses), you will do one or the other.  Present and briefly describe the context for them.

 **IV. Methods**  Discuss what type of methods you are using and why? Qualitative or Quantitative or Mixed Methods?

 Describe your participants? What criteria you’ve used to select them? How you will find them? Discuss the setting you will interact with them in.

 If you do not plan on doing research involving humans -- then describe the text you will analysis. How much, how often, what years, what part, etc?

 Describe your data collection method/s. What and Why?

 Describe your data analysis technique/s. What and Why?

 **IV. Expected Findings** <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif;"> Discuss what you think you would find if you conducted your study. Note – you will not be conducting the study just proposing it.

<span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif;"> **V. Expected Contributions to the Field** <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif;"> Discuss how your study will advance the understanding of library and information science. How will your work benefit the field?