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| Preface | |
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| About the Nature of This Book | |
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| About the Changes in This New Edition | |
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| Suggestions for Using the Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Writing the Proposal | |
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| The Function of the Proposal | |
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| Function | |
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| Communication | |
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| Plan | |
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| Contract | |
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| Regulations Governing Proposals | |
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| General Considerations | |
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| General Format | |
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| Specific Tasks | |
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| Introducing the Study | |
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| Stating the Purpose | |
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| Providing a Rationale | |
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| Formulating Questions or Hypotheses | |
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| Identifying Delimitations and Limitations | |
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| Providing Definitions | |
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| Discussing the Background of the Problem | |
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| Explaining Procedures | |
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| Providing Supplementary Material | |
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| Completing the Tasks: The Proposal and the Report | |
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| Doing the Right Thing: "The Habit of Truth" | |
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| Ethics and the Research Process | |
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| The Protection of Human Subjects | |
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| An Ethical Benchmark | |
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| The Self-interest of Respect | |
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| The Danger of Seeming Innocent | |
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| A Protocol for Informed Consent | |
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| The Reactive Effects of Honesty | |
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| Omission of Information | |
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| Cooperation by Coercion | |
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| Reciprocity | |
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| The Ethics of Writing | |
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| Plagiarism | |
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| Providing All the Facts | |
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| Manufacturing the Facts | |
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| Ethics in Publication | |
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| Personal and Professional Relationships | |
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| Relationships With Faculty Mentors | |
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| Discovery and Obligation | |
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| Developing the Thesis or Dissertation Proposal: Some Common Problems | |
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| Before the Proposal: First Things First | |
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| Making Your Decision: Do You Really Want to Do It? | |
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| Choosing Your Turf: Advisors and Areas | |
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| Finding Your Question: What Don't We Know That Matters? | |
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| The Sequence of Proposing: From Selecting a Topic to Forming a Committee | |
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| A Plan of Action: What Follows What? | |
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| Originality and Replication: What Is a Contribution to Knowledge? | |
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| Getting Started: Producing the First Draft | |
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| Selecting Your Thesis or Dissertation Committee | |
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| Content of the Proposal: Important Considerations | |
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| Reviewing the Literature: Finding It First | |
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| Reviewing the Literature: Writing the Right Stuff | |
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| Spadework The Proper Use of Pilot Studies | |
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| Murphy's Law: Anticipating the Unexpected | |
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| Anticipating the Analysis: Do It Now | |
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| The Statistical Well: Drinking the Greatest Draught | |
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| On Finding a Friendly Computer | |
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| The Care and Nurture of Consultants | |
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| The Scientific State of Mind: Proof, Truth, and Rationalized Choices | |
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| Preparation of Proposals for Qualitative Research: Different Assumptions | |
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| The Only Constant Is Change | |
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| Disagreements and Diversity | |
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| A Brief Description of Qualitative Research | |
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| Preparing a Proposal for Qualitative Research | |
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| Proposals for Focus Group Research | |
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| Resources for Qualitative Research | |
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| The Decision to Go Qualitative | |
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| Proposals for Mixed Method Research | |
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| Resources for Mixed Methods Research | |
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| Considerations for Proposing Mixed Methods Research | |
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| Style and Form in Writing the Proposal | |
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| Praising, Exhorting, and Polemicizing: Don't | |
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| Quotations: How to Pick Fruit From the Knowledge Tree | |
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| Clarity and Precision: Speaking in System Language | |
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| Editing: The Care and Nurture of a Document | |
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| In Search of a Title: First Impressions and the Route to Retrieval | |
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| Components Appropriate for Inclusion in the Title | |
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| Components Inappropriate for Inclusion in the Title | |
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| Mechanics of Titling | |
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| The Oral Presentation | |
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| Preparing Content | |
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| Preparing Materials | |
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| A Special Note About the Use of PowerPoint | |
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| Construction | |
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| Proper Use | |
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| The General Rules | |
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| Practice and Revision | |
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| Preparing the Environment | |
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| Oral Presentation | |
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| Managing Interaction | |
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| The Aftermath | |
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| Money For Research | |
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| Money for Research: How to Ask for Help | |
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| Money Is Available to Support Research | |
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| Locating the Money Tree | |
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| General Strategies | |
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| Using Institutional Retrieval Systems | |
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| Finding Federal and State Dollars | |
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| Tapping Into Nongovernmental Sources | |
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| Considering Commercial Search Services | |
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| The Bottom Line | |
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| Business Possibilities | |
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| Resources Earmarked for Student Research | |
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| Working With the Money Source | |
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| Home Institutional Resources | |
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| Federal and State Agencies: Progressing Through the Maze | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Partnerships With Business | |
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| Business and Corporate Foundations | |
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| The Grant Application-The Big Picture | |
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| The Application and the Proposal | |
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| The Cornerstone: The Research Question | |
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| Quality: The Proposed Research and the Research Proposal | |
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| The Investigator and the Environment 185 | |
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| Dealing With Rejection | |
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| Planning and Preparation: Taking the Long view | |
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| Special Tips (and Encouragement) for Students | |
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| Why You Should Seek Funding | |
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| Preparation of the Grant Proposal | |
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| Using Planning Models and Flowcharts | |
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| The Application | |
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| The Budget | |
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| Staff and Consultant Needs | |
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| Supplies and Equipment | |
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| Travel Costs | |
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| Indirect Costs | |
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| Research Support | |
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| Biographical Sketch: Presenting Yourself | |
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| Letters of Endorsement and Confirmation | |
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| The Research Plan | |
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| Abstracts | |
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| Specific Aims and Hypotheses | |
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| Background | |
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| Significance of the Proposed Research | |
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| Procedures and Methods | |
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| Research Design | |
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| Participants | |
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| Tests and Measurements | |
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| Procedures | |
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| Analyses | |
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| The Time Frame | |
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| Dissemination of Results | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Summary | |
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| Specimen Proposals | |
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| Experimental Study-The Effects of Primate Vocalizations, Backward Speech, and Filtered Speech on Object Categorization During the First Year | |
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| Qualitative Study-An Advisory Team for Social Justice Education: Teachers' and the Principal's Perceptions on Four Key Dimensions of the Ninth Grade Advisory Program | |
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| Online Electronic Survey Study-The Nutrition Care Process of Front-Line Pediatric HW Providers | |
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| Funded Grant-How Higher Education in Prison Affects Student-Inmates' Social Capital and Conceptions of Self | |
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| Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Supplementary References | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |