Capstone Project Proposal Methods and Deliverables

Overview: This group discussion will prepare you to write your Capstone Project Proposal Methods. Your methods should be clear, concise, well-organized, and enable a reader to replicate your project. In order to make your paper as clear as possible, organize this section into subsections with headers for each procedure you describe (e.g., sites, field collection vs. laboratory analysis, data collection, measuring techniques, mapping techniques, researcher(s), sample study group, and duration of the study/project). Not all of these headings will be applicable to every capstone project, so you will need to decide which are most appropriate for your project. Every paper will have an analysis method it might be titled Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, or Outcome Analysis, depending on your project. You will describe your data analysis as descriptive, inferential, or another type of statistical analysis. If helpful, you can include tables, figures, diagrams, or maps to explain your method. You should cite references for methods you propose and demonstrate knowledge of accepted methods for similar problems. You should also include a section that describes the expected results (e.g., deliverables to your collaborator) that your methods will produce. Keep in mind that all expected results must have a description of methods used to produce them within the methods section, and all methods described should be clearly associated with an expected result. Please attach your post as a PDF. It should include your full proposal draft at this point, including a title, author information, the introduction, and the new methods and deliverables sections. Provide a link to your chosen manuscript guidelines within your post. Write your proposal methods and deliverables (expected results) draft according to the style and citation guidelines you have chosen. You should base your methods on the material encountered previously on how to write a methods section. Your methods must be appropriately complex and rigorous, and supported by scholarly sources. Your draft should be in narrative format, and all lines of the manuscript should be numbered. Use Microsoft Word. Under the Layout pull-down menu, choose Line Numbers, then set it to Continuous. Never use bulleted lists to describe methods or steps in your process. Your instructor will provide you with feedback on your Methods and Deliverables section when they grade your initial post. I have attached all the information for the course project so far. I have also attached the rubric for this assignment (labeled as Week 6 Discussion 1 for reference).