Please check the attached instructions and make an offer for the proposal and the bonus question as well. You will write a qualitative research paper proposal and prepare a media supplement assignment.
The proposal includes four key parts:
1) An Introduction: The purpose and importance of your proposed research.
2) The proposed research design. This section includes: A discussion of your three research questions
(RQs), background on your selected method(s), and a proposed plan for how you will collect data in
your project. The questions should also help inform the research design and methods that are
selected, helping to structure how the research can be conducted. Please refer to at least one method.
3) Ethical considerations: If you would require ethics board approval for your project and why; and/or if
there are other ethics issues you are anticipating given your outlined methods and questions. Please
note that if you propose unobtrusive research (e.g. textual, content analysis), a discussion about
ethical principles and potential pitfalls/challenges/ethical gray areas with textual research is necessary.
4) Literature review: Summarize three relevant pieces of peer-reviewed scholarly literature that are
connected to your research questions. Provide a summary of these texts and explain how you anticipate
possibly using them in your project.
Recommended Resources: Textbook (van den Hoonaard, 2018); COMS databases are available through
the librarys COMS Subject Guide page (for your literature review of scholarly sources); Tri-Council Policy
Statement on Research Involving Humans (2014) (plus lectures on data management, privacy).
Media Supplement Instructions: The supplement can be a still image or audio(visual) clip / text that
works to supplement and synthesize key parts of your research proposal. You may use any
software/program to design the text. Visuals can be in portrait or landscape orientation and should be one page. If creating an audio(visual) file, please record for under 5 minutes in length. Regardless of medium the supplement needs to clearly synthesize the most important parts from each section of the report.
What you choose to select and highlight (e.g. frame) is up to you! Use your judgment as the researcher.
Please note: Any online images that are used in your project must be in the public domain. See this
helpful resource for finding content in the Creative Commons. Wikimedia Commons, Unsplash, Flickr
Commons, ISO Republic are useful, Digital History, Musopen, Choral Public Domain Library for audio.
Accepted image files: .jpeg, .png, .gif, .ppt. Accepted audio: .mp3, .wav. Accepted video: .mov, mpeg, .mp4
