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This hub discusses some of the common elements in a research proposal. Whether you are doing
quantitative or qualitative research, it is important that you outline the reasons why you propose
doing the study and what process or procedures you will follow to complete the proposed study.
Some of the important parts of a good quantitative or qualitative research proposal include:
Write an Introduction
After you have identified a pertinent problem and framed a purpose statement, then you need to
craft an introduction. Among other things, the introduction to the proposal will include
Research design;
Sample size and characteristics of the proposed sample;
Data collection and data analysis procedures
After you collect the data, you also need to follow a scheme as how to analyze the data and
report the results. In a quantitative study you might run the data through Excel or better yet SPSS
and if you are proposing a qualitative study you might use a certain computer program like
ATLAi. to perform a narrative study or grounded theory study that exposes the main themes
from the proposed interviews.
http://ecoggins.hubpages.com/hub/10-Steps-to-Writing-a-Research-Proposal