Assignment 4 2003: Research Report
Date Assigned: November 5
Title of Assignment: Research Report
Due Date: December 3
Points: 45
This assignment requires that you prepare a report of publishable quality outlining the results of major research investigation using Structural Equation Modeling. Any available data may be used.
In presenting your report, you should introduce the overall goals of your endeavor, review the relevant literature, clearly state your hypotheses, analyze your data thoroughly and point out the implications of your work . Your goals thus are to give the reader a clear idea of the question you are addressing, a solid understanding of current knowledge, what you have discovered and how you have done so, and what your work means in both substantive and methodological terms for the field.
Keep in mind that the main purpose of the report is to condense the results of all your investigations into a form that will enable readers to appreciate the implications of your work. This requires that you carefully select for inclusion those analyses central to your research question while omitting those which are peripheral. You should not make your readers wade through all that you have done. Instead, you should carefully select and arrange those elements of your work that enable you to tell a clear story using tables, graphs and written text.
Reports may vary in length, but should not exceed 25 double-spaced typewritten pages, a common limit set in academic journals.
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