My topic is “Impacts of physical barriers along the United States borders on illegal immigration”
Each student will be required to complete the term project, which is a research proposal written in an APA Style. The project should have at least 1000-words of substance not counting the cover and reference page. Please include a Cover Page, an abstract and a list of references. The research proposal you write in this course will NOT be sent to the IRB for approval. This is because you will not be conducting actual research for the purposes of this class. You will however gain an insight as to how to write a research proposal.
Each student will be required to complete a research proposal, as the term project. The research proposal will include the following:
Title page
Abstract (100-120 words)
Introduction
Hypothesis/Problem Statement/Purpose Statement
Literature Review and Definitions included in research
Research methods/design
References
Do not include quotes in your work. The student needs to display good critical thinking skills and not a string of quotes written by published authors. Your proposal is what is needed for a successful research project to be conducted in the future.
Your proposal will start with an abstract (write this last), then it will have an introduction which gives an overview of the issue but doesnt give away the rest of your proposals info. You will have a problem/purpose/hypothesis as well. The problem is what your research hopes to address. The purpose is why you are proposing the research. The hypothesis would be a statement that the proposed research would strive to disprove. You will also have a literature review. This tells us whats already out there in the scholarly literature on your topic, what others have already researched, and helps us to see that there is a gap you will seek to fill.
There are references attached to use, finding others is okay too but use these please.
