A procedure of investigation used to establish facts verifiable through observation and to discover testable relationships among those facts.
What is scientific research?
100
The upper right corner.
What is the location of the page number?
100
Research that yields extensive narrative data.
What is qualitative?
100
An in-depth analysis of a single, restricted entity, such as one student, one classroom, or one program.
What is a case study?
100
The running head, the title, the author's name, and the author's institution.
What is the title page?
200
The basic information obtained in research (plural noun).
What is data?
200
The use of two of these denotes the end of a sentence.
What is spaces?
200
Research that explores traits and situations from which numerical data are obtained and analysis is statistical.
What is quantitative?
200
An approach that describes events or settings of the past to better understand them.
What is historical research?
200
The list of works used to document statements within the text. This list provides enough detail to locate the works for more information.
What is the References section?
300
A testable statement of a predicted relationship or difference among certain variable.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Always put one of these before 'and' in a series.
What is a comma?
300
Research done to develop or improve a specific product, procedure, or program.
What is action research?
300
An approach that describes and interprets the experiences or reactions of participants, who have some common experience, from their perspectives.
What is phenomenology?
300
The section of the paper that provides the underlying foundational philosophy.
What is the conceptual framework?
400
The moral aspects of research.
What are ethics (or ethical principles)?
400
Rarely, if ever, use this pronoun.
What is I (or first person)?
400
This method may involve surveying a large group using a Likert scale.
What is quantitative research?
400
An approach that involves in-depth description and interpretation of the shared or common practices and beliefs of a culture or social group.
What is ethnography?
400
An analysis of other research pertinent to the proposed research project; it is often broken into sections by themes.
What is the literature review?
500
Eyewitnesses and firsthand accounts.
What are primary sources?
500
It is running on the title page.
What is the heading?
500
This method may involve interviews of a small number of individuals to dig deeply into a topic.
What is qualitative (or narrative, etc.) research?
500
An approach that is used to discover new theory directly from the data.
What is grounded theory?
500
A single un-indented paragraph on a single page that concisely and accurately summarizes the intent of the research proposal without citing references.