Layout: Research Findings
Overall:
· In paragraph form (except for graphs, charts, or any other extras that you have)
· 3-4 pages (but longer if you need it)
· Can be written very matter-of-factly and straight to the point
Section 1: Statement of the Problem/Purpose of Study
· This is, essentially, the first two sections of your research proposal, combined and editing.
· This tells the readers what you’re studying and why you are studying it.
· Here, you want to grab your audience’s attention so that they keep reading.
Section 2: Research Questions
· Explain what you are specifically testing.
· These can be in numbered form, but lead into them with a few sentences of introduction
Section 3: Research Method/Design
· This is partly from your research proposal, just expanded a bit.
· Tell me: How you went about answering your research questions.
· You are all doing: Qualitative research. But what aspects of qualitative research? (ex. Observations (ethnographies), surveys, etc.)
· This will include aspects of your research design, but I also want you to be very specific as to how you really did it when you actually went about implementing your design.
· Also tell me limitations here such as only one person observing the reactions, a narrow sample of people tested, etc. (what do you see as a limitation in answering your research questions)
Section 4: Results
· Here, simply tell me your results.
· What specifically did you find?
· You can include charts, quotations, etc.
· Like I said, just me what you’ve found.
Section 5: Discussion
· Finally, this section connects your research to those larger writing/contextual/rule issues that we’ve been studying all semester.
· Here you will directly answer your research questions.
· You will also “move the discussion” forward to consider your research as it relates to writing, this culture, etc.
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