HSS 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Null Hypothesis, Blood Sugar, Literature Review
17 Feb 2016
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Research proposal: research guidebook to ethical board, specify problem, elaborate on significance of research, review related research, Selection of problem: outline appropriate methodology: grandma principle easy to understand, sexy principle what interests us now, not too broad or narrow, interests, values, budget, must be researchable, problems lend themselves to an investigation. Or reading an abstract or research paper that says: more research is needed in this area. Sub problems: minor, related subjects, could be a research problem on its own, can also be listed as objectives, contributes to overarching problems. Limitations: boundaries of the problem established by the factors or people other than the researcher. Delimitations: deals with boundaries set by researcher (defend your choices for: ex: at carleton, they"re allowed to just look at only english speaking people. Assumptions: condition that is taken for granted, cannot do research without this limitations) assumption. Definitions of terms: must define each term as it relates to the project at hand.
