Learning Plan 8

Assignments

LP8 Assignment: Informative Abstract

This assignment will assess the following competency: 8. Synthesize research findings.

Directions: This week you are going to write an informative abstract. This page will appear after your Table of Contents in your research paper.

The informative abstract should be an overview of your full project. The informative abstract must:
• identify the need(s) or issue(s) that prompted the report,
• describe the research methods used,
• review the main findings (data gathered from your questionnaire and review of literature), and
• condense the conclusions and recommendations.

*Just an f.y.i, see feed back below regarding attached Questionnaire:

Keep the questionnaire brief and concise. Some questionnaires give the impression that their authors tried to think of every conceivable question that might be asked with respect to the general topic of concern. The result is a very long questionnaire causing annoyance and frustration on the part of the respondents resulting in non-return of mailed questionnaires and incomplete or inaccurate responses on questionnaires administered directly. To avoid this first potential problem the investigator must define precisely the information desired and endeavor to write as few questions as possible to obtain it. Peripheral questions and ones to find out "something that might just be nice to know" must be avoided. A clear-cut need for every question should be established.