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Events This Week
At the Library
- Message from the Head Librarian
- Keep Your Library Card Privileges
- Library Lessons Using a Qualitative Approach
- Circulation Desk
- Next Week at the Library
A Message from
the Head Librarian
Welcome to your second week on the Second Floor of the Library and your sixth week of the course!
Each of you should have receive feedback on your rough draft of Section I of your proposal by this evening. I have to say this is probably one of the better groups of rough drafts I have had so this bodes well for future drafts I hope. Please read the feedback carefully and use it to improve your future rough drafts of other sections as well as to make your final draft of your proposal a winner. Remember also that unless noted otherwise you receive full points for your rough draft as long as what you turned in was complete and on time. This will not be the case with your final draft. Points will be taken off for errors in content, APA style, grammar, punctuation, etc. It is clear to me that some of you are reading the sample proposals I have provided as well as using the rubric as a guide when writing your rough drafts and I would like to strongly encourage your continuation of this practice or the establishment of this practice for your Section II rough draft.
Feedback from week 4 noted the volume of information provided. I have to agree that week 4 is a heavy one on the information side of things. The literature review is the longest part of your proposal and probably the most intensive to write so I usually try to provide as much assistance and guidance as possible.
If you have not clicked on the exhibition hall link recently you might
want to take a leisurely stroll through sometime this week to peruse
the variety of exhibits made available by you and your peers. In the
exhibition hall you will be able to view your peers' drafts of the different
sections of the Research Proposal as they are submitted. Do remember
that these are drafts and the real "icing on the cake" will
be when everyone submits their final draft for exhibit. Right now I hope
that you will enjoy reviewing others' work to see the variety of interesting
topics everyone is investigating.
APA Tidbit
This week the APA tidbit focus is on the knotty little problem of how to cite and reference a report you read about in another document.
For example, while reading Does computer technology improve
student learning and achievement? by Schacter & Fagnano
(1999) you find they summarize Wolk's 1994 report titled, Project-based learning: Pursuits with
a purpose. The results
reported by Wolk are exactly what you need to justify the project you want
to propose. The problem, however, is that Wolk's
report is an unpublished manuscript (see examples 58 and 59 on page 263 of
the APA manual) and you cannot obtain it.
Fortunately, the procedure for solving this problem is explained on page 247 of the APA manual. In short, you would use a with-in text citation such as this:
The results reported by Wolk (as cited in Schacter & Fagnano, 1999) support three conclusions.
On the reference pages cite Schacter and Fagnano in the ordinary manner, but do not include a citation for Wolk. One note of caution! Citing material from secondary sources is not encouraged in journal articles, theses, or dissertations. Limited use is acceptable for this course.
Our goals this week are to:
- Consider the setting of your proposed study and the access you will have to solicit participants
- Describe different approaches used to obtain a sample of participants for qualitative research
- Identify different types of data collected in qualitative studies and the methods used to collect it
- Begin the process of locating and selecting or creating tools (protocols) for data collection in a qualitative study
- Describe the processes used for organizing and transcribing qualitative data for analysis
- Identify ways in which qualitative data is reported
- Continue constructing your own literature map for your research topic based on the articles you identify and begin working on writing Section II of your proposal
Don't Forget Your
Library Card!
Task #1:
Complete the Library Patron Feedback Form
Contact the
Library Staff
Need Help?
Have a question but can't find the answer? Here are some options:
- Check the FAQ page to see if your question has already been answered.
- Email the Head Librarian (Dr. Curda) .
- Email the Assistant Librarian (Melissa).
- Check with the other library patrons.