o Make sure that this section address the following:
• Background information on the topic area
• Scope/rationale for the proposal or importance of the study
• Statement of the research question /hypothesis/research problem
• Methodology
o Participants or target population (age, gender, inclusion and exclusion
criteria, and so on)
o Recruitment and informed consent process
o Sampling method and sample size
o Research design, including independent variable(s) and dependent
variable(s)
o Instrumentation or data collection methods (including data collection
time points, reliability and validity)
• Proposed data analyses
o Descriptive statistics
o Inferential statistics
o Predicted findings
• Timeline for the proposed study
• References
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and include a title
page and a reference page (No abstract is necessary).