BELOW ARE TWO ATTACHED DOCUMENTS, I NEED TO MAKE SURE THE GRADED DOCUMENT VIEWED AND ALL CHANGES NEED TO REFLECT ON THE REVISED DOCUMENT, ALSO THERE NEED TO BE MORE RESERACHED INFORMATION ABOUT INCIDENTS THAT HAPPEN IN THE NBA AND THEY SHOULD ALSO BE REFLECTED IN THE PAPER. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CASES AND MORE DETAIL.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER IS BELOW PLEASE FOLLOW CORRECTLY
A Research Question is a statement that identifies the phenomenon to be studied. For example, What resources are helpful to new and minority drug abuse researchers?
To develop a strong research question from your ideas, you should ask yourself these things:
Do I know the Sport Industry and its literature well?
What are the important research questions in the Sport Industry, specifically relating to my company?
What areas of my company need further exploration?
How will solving your selected problem lead to greater understanding within your company and the Sport Industry?
Has a great deal of research already been conducted in this topic area?
Has this study been done before? If so, how will you do something different and is there room for improvement?
Is the timing right for this question to be answered? Is it a hot topic, or is it becoming obsolete?
Most importantly, will my study have a significant impact on the Sport Industry? This is not an opinion question. It has to be supported by a professional in the field
A strong research idea should pass the so what test. Think about the potential impact of the research you are proposing. What is the benefit of answering your research question? Who will it help (and how)? If you cannot make a definitive statement about the purpose of your research, it is unlikely to be funded.
A research focus should be narrow, not broad-based. For example, What can be done to prevent substance abuse? is too large a question to answer. It would be better to begin with a more focused question such as What is the relationship between specific early childhood experiences and subsequent substance-abusing behaviors?
A well-thought-out and focused research question leads directly into your hypotheses. What predictions would you make about the phenomenon you are examining? This will be the foundation of your application.
Hypotheses are more specific predictions about the nature and direction of the relationship between two variables. For example, Those researchers who utilize an online grant writing tutorial will have higher priority scores on their next grant application than those who do not.
Strong hypotheses:
Give insight into a research question;
Are testable and measurable by the proposed experiments;
Spring logically from the experience of the staff;
Normally, no more than three primary hypotheses should be proposed for a research study. A proposal that is hypothesis-driven is more likely to be funded than a fishing expedition or a primarily descriptive study.
Make sure you:
Provide a rationale for your hypotheseswhere did they come from, and why are they strong?
Provide alternative possibilities for the hypotheses that could be testedwhy did you choose the ones you did over others?
If you have good hypotheses, they will lead into your Specific Aims. Specific aims are the steps you are going to take to test your hypotheses and what you want to accomplish in the course of the grant period. Make sure:
Your objectives are measurable and highly focused;
Each hypothesis is matched with a specific aim.
The aims are feasible, given the time and money you are requesting in the grant.
An example of a specific aim would be Conduct a rigorous empirical evaluation of the online grant writing tutorial, comparing outcome and process measures from two groupsthose with exposure to the tutorial and those without.
Long-Term Goals:
Why are you doing this research?
What are the long-term implications?
What will happen after the grant?
What other avenues are open to explore?
What is the ultimate application or use of the research?
These questions all relate to the long-term goal of your research, which should be an important undercurrent of the proposal. Again, they should be a logical extension of the research question, hypotheses, and specific aims.
It is also helpful to have a long-term plan for your own career development. Where would you like to see your career go in the next 5 years? How does the research you are proposing relate to that plan?
Now Write It Up
Once youve thought through the key elements of your research questions, hypotheses, specific aims, and research design, you have the ingredients for a concept paper. This is an important tool to help you to organize your thoughts, as well as to promote, disseminate, or get feedback on your ideas. A concept paper is a succinct description of your research plan (3 to 5 pages), with the requisite sources. Be sure to incorporate the feedback that I provided from your 1st writing assignment. All papers going forward should have a Title Page. The same title page should be the cover of all future writing assignments.
