Research Proposal Outline

Also, you must use the Research Outline Template provided below to submit this assignment. This assignment should be submitted using the template provided. DO NOT submit it as an essay or paper, for it will not be graded, and you will receive a zero for the submission.

Assignment Instructions:

• Download the file entitled Research Outline Template with Rubric, and complete the assignment based on your selected educational research topic. The template includes the grading rubric that will be utilized to evaluate your work. Review that rubric, but REMOVE the rubric from the template prior to submitting.
• Your study has to be an experimental research design, and you are required to use a quantitative methodology. Keep this in mind while preparing and completing the Research Outline.
• Good examples of a Research Proposal Outline, as well as a final submission for the Signature Project Stage 1, are attached. These examples did not receive a perfect score. Both have particular errors or issues; however, both examples did receive high marks. ED504 is not a course where you can simply fill in the blanks. You can use the examples as a guide, but you must invest in the process to question, compare, and critique while learning the many facets of writing, researching, and reporting. The good examples posted in this shell were edited using APA 6th edition. You must follow APA 7th edition formatting.
• Here is a guide to what is new in the APA 7th edition.
• You will prepare only Chapters 1-3 in this course. You will not actually perform the research.

Here are a few writing tips. Please review these tips and refer to your APA manual for any questions regarding writing formal research papers.

1. Follow APA 7th Edition formatting. Review the correct format for when to spell out numbers and when to use the actual number.

2. Do not use contractions. Contractions are not appropriate for professional academic papers.

3. Do not use first and second-person pronouns. Academic papers are written in the third person.

4. Avoid pronouns in general. It is best to use the noun for which you are discussing.

5. Avoid personification in your writing – that is, instances in which inanimate objects are granted conditions normally reserved for an aminate (living) object. Example:

• Incorrect – Research indicates that writing is a necessary skill. – Research cannot indicate that it’s not alive.
• Correct – One can conclude from the research that writing is a necessary skill.

6. Avoid referring to “the article” or “the author” and refer to the author or authors by last name and cite them….Example: Smith (2019) found evidence that…..

7. Avoid the word done to refer to research that was or will be conducted.

8. Avoid the word prove or proven — that means absolute, and there is no absolute in research; use words like demonstrated, indicated, supported, attested, or validated.

9. Avoid casual language or slang terms.

10. Do not copy your references into your reference list. Type each one out to ensure the correct format. Do not copy from an online reference generator, as they are often incorrect.

11. Make sure you review the correct APA format for narrative and parenthetic in-text citations. Here is a good reference link: .

12. Using a quote, you must have a page or paragraph number listed in the citation. Also, the quotes cannot be more than 39 words, or you should use a block quote format.