Research on the topic and a proposal. Literature review is a huge part of the paper as it will help with the rest of the assignment.
1. APA writing style
2. Table of content
Introduction & research question. Each student will submit an introduction for their proposal that includes the research questions, significance and purpose of the study, and relevance to social work.
Literature review should be 7 pages so that should take lots of pages. It should have 3 main points and 2-3 paragraphs under. See the example. I think if you are writing relevance and follow the example you should be good. At least 19-20 pages depending on what you write and the perfection of the work. You don’t have to do the 26 pages as the example.
Literature Review. In order to understand your client population and their issues, you need to review the scholarly literature (journals, books, government databases, etc). Your search should include a history of the issue, previous/current social work interventions (or lack thereof) aimed at addressing the issue, statistical documentation of the extent of the problem, and any policy affecting this issue and any critical analysis of social or current policy. Based on what you learn from the literature, what is still not known about the topic that you will investigate? Writing the literature review requires that you assess, organize and synthesize a wide range of retrieved information and not summarize each article in detail separately.
Method.
Sample/participants: describe characteristics of sample and criteria for selection
Research design including hypotheses, independent and dependent variables, operational definitions
Procedure
Instrument
Data analysis/Outcome measures
Appendix A
Appendix B