writing your aera proposal
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Writing your proposal (Source:www.aera.net):
1. Title: Make Sure that the First Letter of Each Appropriate Word Is Capitalized. 2. Abstract: No more than 120 words. 3. You MUST address explicitly the following six elements in your proposal:
(1) Objectives or purposes:
• Provide a brief background or rationale for your research, and clearly state what the purpose of your paper is.
• State your research question(s) along with the purpose. • Discuss how your research fits the theme if possible.
(2) Perspective(s) or theoretical framework:
• Write thorough and substantive literature review on your research topic.
• Discuss your theoretical framework. • Address what has been done in the existing literature, analyze
and synthesize it as a segue to the discussion of why you are writing your paper.
(3) Methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry:
• Discuss your methodology, e.g., narrative inquiry, phenomenology, or case study, action research, etc.
• Discuss your data collection methods, e.g., field notes, observation, interviews, documents, surveys, etc.
(4) Data Sources, evidence, objects, or materials:
• Provide a discussion of your data analysis. • Provide salient, important emergent themes with evidence from
your data.
(5) Results and/or substantiated conclusions, or warrants for arguments/point of view:
• Discuss your findings carefully and thoroughly by revisiting the literature while providing a new perspective. Address your research questions.
• Discuss implications of your study or recommendations for educators.
• Try to answer the “So what?” question.
6) Scientific or scholarly significance of the study or work: • Discuss the significance of your study including how your
study can contribute to the literature. • Revisit the conference theme and how your proposal is tied
into the theme.