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Question: Unit 1: Rewrite your purpose statement using the mixed methods, qualitative, and quantitative templates found in chapter 6 of Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Aim to make each restatement of the purpose statement a single, simple, and clear paragraph.
Reflect upon each of the rewritten purpose statements and think about which one best fits your study. Do you need to revise or replace your current purpose statement using one of the revised versions? If so, why? How would you go about revising your purpose statement?
Post all three rewrites to the forum along with answers to the above questions. If you decided to revise your purpose statement, include it as part of the post and explain how you improved upon your old purpose statement. The posting should easily be one and one-half pages in length.
Unit 2: Chapter 7 introduced you to the three forms of mixed methods research questions. Review the three forms and prepare to use them.
Your study likely contains one or two research questions. Reflect upon Unit 1 and Unit 2 as to propose three or four mixed methods research questions that may benefit your study. Post the proposed questions to the forum and discuss whether one of the proposed questions should be added into your study.
UNIT 3: Begin developing a literature map. A literature map is a visualization of the literature linking the concepts, ideas, and themes from the literature into a broad perspective of the field. The map may be extended while working on later dissertation chapters.
The literature map also serves the following purposes:
• Helps you detect themes in the literature useful for developing your dissertation.
• Illustrates relationships between concepts, ideas, theories, and themes.
• Helps you integrate old knowledge into the knowledge you create while dissertating.
• Guide your literature searches.
• Identify headings and subheadings you can use in chapter 2!
• Keeps you grounded in the literature!
There is no recipe for creating a literature map because they come in many forms:
• An abstract framework grouping concepts using relationships-perhaps index cards!
• Flowcharts involving events and their connections.
• Causal networks of variables or influences.
• Organizational diagrams/trees illustrating various kinds of relationships.
• Venn diagrams in which overlaps (intersections) contain key concepts.
• Bubble maps.
• any way you want to visualize the structure and relationships within the literature!
UNIT 4: Review exercise 3.2 on page 70 of the PDF about conceptual frameworks. Create a second conceptual framework diagram for your study and think about the following questions:
• Do both diagrams produce insight into what you think is going on with the variables in the study?
• Which diagram would be easier or more practical to test?
• Which diagram would fare better during testing? Why?
• What are the implications of both diagrams?
• Which diagram has implications more fitting of your study?
• Is it easy to distinguish between the diagrams?
• How could your study distinguish between the diagrams?
Post a one to one-and-a-half-page response to the above questions along with the rationale supporting which diagram you want to use for your study.
UNIT 5: You have been asked you to explore the assumptions and delimitations underlying your study. Review your selected method and conceptual framework as to find new assumptions and delimitations. Revise your draft as to include your newly discovered assumptions and delimitations. Strive to find at least one assumption and delimitation from your conceptual framework and at least one assumption from the selected method.
Post your revision, highlighting your changes, to the forum. Justify your changes.
UNIT 6: Unit 6 is all about proofreading and obtaining additional feedback on Chapter 1. Please proofread the document and revise accordingly.
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