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Research Paper

The step by step process

The Situation

• You have just gotten your MBA and a new promotion You work for the government of your home country.
• Your boss has received an invitation to represent your country at a symposium and to prepare a paper for presentation. The paper will be published in their professional journal if it is good enough and will be read by senior government officials world wide.

Your Tasks

• Identify general topics of interest to you,

stated as “what should be done about

_______?

• Prepare an argument, explaining why you

believe this topic is the one that should be

addressed by your group. (15 bullet points on

one page.)

Your Tasks-continued

• Meet with your group and arrive at a

consensus – What should be done about

___________?

• Obtain my approval, for the topic.
• Become an expert in one facet of the topic.

Definitions

• Problem
  • A condition regarded as unacceptable
  • Problem solved by finding way to change the condition for the better
• Issue
  • A matter about which informed people disagree
  • Issue is resolved by finding out which view is more reasonable
• Thesis Statement
  • A one sentence summary of the writer’s argument
  • A main point to be supported by good reasons and evidence

Examples of Research Questions

• Yali’s question:
  • “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” or
  • “Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?”

Your Task

• Gather evidence for and against your thesis
  • Internet sources
  • Library sources
  • Interviews
• Prepare and submit Section I, Definition and limitation of the problem, of your paper to - Two peers for review - The Instructor

Your Task

• Rewrite the section after the peer review and

instructor comments

• Submit the final product of section I.
• Complete a draft of the paper and submit for review
• Prepare final paper and submit for grade

Introduction

• What is the purpose of your investigation?
• What problems or issues do you address?
• Why this problem or issue?
• Provide enough background for the reader to

understand the problem

• Literature review summarizing previous research

Definition and Limitation of the

Problem

A. What is the policy question you are researching?

B. Provide definitions (dictionary, contextual, expert) for any terms you will be using which are central to understanding your issue.

C. Limit the scope of your analysis by stating the aspects of the problem you are going to cover and what you will not cover.

D. What is the thesis statement?

Possible Solutions

-.

• A. What do the experts say?
• 1. Indicate and explain some solutions

offered by experts you have found.

• 2. List possible solutions you personally have

developed.

Criteria for Judging Solutions

• A. What are the standards by which you will judge the effectiveness of each?
• solution?
• 1. Cost of the solution
• 2. Ethical considerations
• 3. Legal considerations
• 4. Long term vs. short term effect consideration
• 5. Other relevant concerns
• a) It should get to the heart of the problem
• b) It should not create another problem in solving this one.
• B. Rank order the criteria.

Conclusions and

Recommendations

• What did you learn
• What are the practical applications of what

you learned.

• What are the appropriate actions to be taken