Puerto Rico and Hurricane Recovery

The Final Report must be in American Psychological Association (APA) format, using the following standard guidelines:
Each of the items in BOLD must be listed as a heading in your paper. (note: the headings themselves are not bolded in the paper) The final product must include the following:
 Cover Page (consult an APA style guide)
 Abstract/Executive Summary (Provides a summary of the report. In less than two
pages, it summarizes the Project, including the issue or problem examined the method of inquiry and your conclusions and recommendations. Pretend that this is the only part of your paper your instructor is going to read.)
 Table of Contents (Provides the organization of the report. Lists the major section and sub-section headings of your report and the pages on which these subjects can be found.)
 Introduction (Here you are introducing your topic, your overarching thesis statement and the research questions you will answer in your literature review and create a research design/methodology section around, do not use a heading)
o Describe or summarize your topic.
o The thesis statement comes at the beginning of your introduction.
o Give all the background of your topic, define all terms.
o Your research questions come at the end and should reflect your overarching
thesis statement.
 Literature Review (Everything in this section should relate back to your research
questions, begins on a new page after the introduction.)
o Use parts of each research question as a heading or subheading.
o What does the literature (academic journal articles, books on your topic) have
to say about your topic? Is there literature regarding how other researchers
have evaluated the topic? What were their conclusions?
o The lit review connects your research/internal organizational work to a larger body of experience and grounds your work in the current knowledge of the field.
o What theory or theories inform your topic.  Methodology (Research Design)
o HELPFUL WEBSITE: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/contents.php o While you will not actually conduct this research I want a complete
methodological section that includes your research design:
 What type research design would you use and why, qualitative or
quantitative, experimental, non- experimental, etc. and why
 What data would you collect, how would you collect it: this depends
on if your research is qualitative or quantitative
 Are you using focus groups and interviews or are your surveying?
Regardless of which how are you selecting the people who are providing the data, entire population or sample, what method of sampling are you using, random, nonrandom, probability, quota, selective etc; If surveying a population/sample, what kind of survey
instrument would you use, how would you determine the population/sample to be surveyed, is it a random or non-random survey, what kind of process would you use to survey to ensure the construct validity(internal/external) of your survey results
 What are the independent, dependent and control variables of your research design
 What are the limitations of your research design, how can you control for bias etc…
 Findings
o If you had actually collected the data using the process you describe in your
methodology section you would report it here. Since you aren’t report what you found from other researchers that you include in your lit review. Do not report other researchers work as your own, make it clear these are the result of other studies.
 Discussion, Recommendations, Conclusions
o In this section you draw conclusions based on what your learned in your lit
review research and make recommendations about what you expect to see when your research is conducted, do you expect the same or different results, why, how is your research different from the research of other scholars.
 References (must be in APA style, not all citation generation programs will produce a correct APA reference page, you must double check)
 Appendix ( If applicable, research data, tools, explanatory notes and lists are organized as appendices, and do not count toward the 35-page maximum.)
Finally, keep in mind that each project is unique and may not necessitate the entire process as listed in this syllabus. Discussion and communication between the student and instructor is the key to a successful capstone.
Other information: The final paper should be between 30 and 35 pages, double-spaced on 8 1⁄2 x 11 page layout in Times New Roman, 12-point font with one-inch margins all round. Use the American Psychological Association (APA) style. See the link at the top of the next page, which is the best online description and summary of APA style which we have found.

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