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Week 4
Composing a Project Plan

Preparations
  1. Doing Research in the Real World (Ch. 2, 13,)
  2. Read one of the following
  1. APU Style and Format Handbook for Master's Theses
  2. Britha Mikkelsen. (2012) Participation in Development: the Concept and Critical Perspectives. In Methods for Development Work and Research. Sage Publications.
Online Discussion

 
 
See Prezi  summary (open in new window using https://prezi.com/dn-kmjbkqb2c/qualitative-methods/) by Lindsey of ch 5.  Summary by Alissa of ch 7 from Qualitative Research Design.

Discuss your research topic definition, and how it relates to what the partnering organization wants to do.  How much is this their idea? How do you narrow it down to simple variables? how do you go about getting the literature so you can build this from theories? What stye of research approach might work best?
 
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Assignments
Go to Assignments in the Course Links menu and select Project 2. Submit as directed.