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Quantitative Research Methods - Summative Essay 1 - Brief
This week you will be submitting the first summative essay that counts for the 20% of your overall grade. In order to successfully complete this task please read carefully the previous weeks' recommended readings as well as pay attention to the below instructions:
1) Choose a research topic that falls in your research area of interest
2) Based on this research topic please create a problem statement (one page)
3) Based on the problem statement please create a purpose statement (250-300 words)
4) Choose the research approach that best "fits" to the investigation of the above research topic. Explain this approach as well justify your selection by stating why you have choose this approach over the other.
Support your paper with minimum of five (5) resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 3 - 4 pages not including title and reference pages.
Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and APA Referencing standard. Be sure to adhere to Academic Integrity Policy by avoiding plagiarism through text-citing and acknowledging other author's work.