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Homework: Capstone-Rough Draft

During this course, you will accomplish a research project on an emergency & disaster management / homeland security topic of your choice. You must gather data, apply research concepts and analytical processes to that data, draw the appropriate conclusions & recommendations, and produce a report of a minimum of 50 pages that meets APA publication quality. Your final paper must provide original knowledge to the field of emergency and disaster management and homeland security that has not existed before. This contribution can be as large or small as you wish to design it, as long as the contribution is original.

The first month of the course will focus on the design of your project and putting all of the required approvals and authorizations in place. Then, you will have approximately two months to conduct your research. The final month will be a process of review and improvement of the final project report, at the end of which you will have produced a product that honors your institution, your education, your profession, and that you can truly be proud of.

A great deal of information is available in the classroom to help. Within the first few days of the course, be sure to examine everything under every section. Read the syllabus thoroughly. Read every homework guideline. Look through the resources and these lessons so that you will know where to find things when you need them. Each area has resources that contribute to your overall research project.

Be sure as you familiarize yourself with the course that you take the time to look under every section. You will find graded items under two different buttons: 'Discussions', and 'Homeworks'. Read the instructions carefully and be sure to complete all graded tasks.

There are several graded Discussions. To receive full credit for a discussion, you must create an original posting, respond to a minimum of two peers, and respond to everyone who has responded to you. These tasks MUST be accomplished during the assigned weeks. There is no point in attempting to have a discussion after everyone has moved on. DO NOT post a document to a discussion. You don't want to make your input difficult for your reader to get to.

You must make a submission for every item on the Homeworks page. Feedback will be returned on every homework. It can be found on the Homeworks page, not in the Grades section. After each grade is posted, go back to the homeworks page and read the feedback.

Here is an approximate outline for when you should be accomplishing each activity in the project development process:

I. Read the Capstone Manual and the appropriate style manual; Take the CITI course and read the IRB requirements; Introduce yourself in the discussions.

II. Develop and submit your prospectus; submit the CITI completion certificate; submit the required IRB approval documents; upload your prospectus to the discussion for peer review.

III. Develop and submit your draft research proposal; review classmates' projects in the discussion.

IV. Revise and submit your final research proposal; include the CITI certificate and the approved IRB forms. Instructor acceptance will constitute approval to accomplish your project.

V. Develop your annotated bibliography.

VI. Finalize your annotated bibliography and write your literature review.

VII. Gather the data you will analyze.

VIII. Finalize data gathering.

IX. Begin the analysis process.

X. Complete the analysis process; provide a progress report in the discussion.

XI. Write up your research findings.

XII. Write your conclusions & recommendations.

XIII. Submit your rough draft.

XIV. Revise your rough draft in accordance with instructor feedback.

XV. Submit your final project report; provide your conclusions & recommendations in the discussion.

XVI. Fill out and submit the approval and transmittal documents; discuss your projects in the discussion.