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Instructions

Idea Sheet
Create an idea sheet the five-step approach described by Greene and Lidinsky (2021) in Chapter 13 titled Getting Started: Writing an Idea Sheet for your topical area.

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The Idea Sheet
The purpose of an Idea Sheet is to help you articulate the goals of your research and why the research is needed or important (Greene & Lidinsky, 2018). Greene and Lidinsky provide a five-step approach to developing what they describe as an "Idea Sheet" (p. 373):
- Explain the topic.
- Detail personal reasons.
- Identify what is at issue.
- Describe the application to the discipline.
- Develop issue-based questions.

Relating to the development of your research proposal, an idea sheet helps readers (in your case, the committee members) understand why you are raising this issue. Contextual information, such as newspaper, trade journal, or government reports, can help a reader understand the magnitude of an issue. However, your explanation of a problem in your discipline will need to be supported with evidence (e.g., prior academic research, detailed description of a situation where information is not publically available). Relating to prior academic research, as a novice researcher in a chosen domain, you may not be aware of research that has been conducted through the years. Your faculty, though, may know about research, and they can share that experience with you-experience that may result in you revising your idea sheet. For example, a student might wonder about components of job satisfaction and propose a qualitative study to explore the phenomenon. A learned faculty in industrial and organizational psychology may point this student to the work of Locke and Whiting (1974) and Locke (1976), which focused on the sources, nature, and causes of job satisfaction. The faculty could also point to the work of Spector (1985), who developed a 36-item, 9-dimension instrument that measures the components of job satisfaction. In this situation, the student has demonstrated a naive understanding in the discipline and needs to perform more research in the topic area to understand the topical area and eventually narrow the focus of the research (Leggett & Jackowski, 2012; Mansilla et al., 2009)