You have two more required drafts to submit for your class research project.
Combination paper --- The revised combined draft contains a combination of the quantitative and qualitative papers you have already submitted. Your job is to combine those two papers and make any corrections or changes, based on my comments on both the qualitative and quantitative papers you previously submitted. You must include a memo that is a 1 paragraph (minimum) summary of what I asked you to change and if/how/where you made the changes. This is important and if it is neglected, your grade for this draft will be penalized. Your grade for this draft will be based primarily on the quality of the revisions you made to the paper, and not based on the grade received for the previous drafts. However, if you make the requested revisions you will typically receive a grade at least as high as your previous drafts. If you do not make the requested revisions, you can expect your grade for this draft will be significantly lower than previous drafts, and as low as failing if you make no changes. You are encouraged to integrate the qualitative and quantitative parts so you have the quotes for each table directly under the analysis for each table -- so for each table you would present the table, the quantitative analysis of that table, and then the qualitative analysis and quotes that relate to that table would be directly below that. Then you would repeat the whole process for the next table. Do not add the literature review, introduction or conclusion to the combination paper, or you will be penalized. I will have the link for submission of this combination paper open on Tuesday Dec 9. I have extended the deadline for this combination paper until the end of the semester -- Thursday of finals week (Dec 18th), at 10pm. You may submit before the 18th, but grading for this paper submission will be posted after finals week.
Final Draft --- The final draft of the paper is also due on Thursday of finals week, Dec 18, 10pm. This involves taking the combination paper submitted above and adding an introduction, literature review, and conclusion. The introduction should introduce your paper, give a question that the paper answers (as a whole), and describe the methods you used to collect and analyze data. The conclusion summarizes your paper and answers the question posed in the introduction. The literature review summarizes the findings and methods of several articles that relate to the main topic(s) in your paper (at least 3 articles is suggested). The structure for the literature review can be the same or similar to your quizzes, and you may use your quiz submissions as a rough draft of your literature review (its OK to plagiarize yourself). These must be journal articles and at least one must be a journal article from the class. You do not have to relate the findings in the articles to your findings, although that will be rewarded. The introduction and conclusion should be about 1 page combined (minimum) and the lit review should be about 4 pages combined (minimum), so this adds at least 5 (double spaced) pages to the combination paper. The final draft should go in this order: introduction, literature review, findings, conclusion. The submission link will be open in course documents on Dec 15th, and will close on the 18th at 10pm. This will be graded after finals week.
Make sure you are submitting the documents as a Microsoft word or pdf document -- other formats sometimes have conversion issues and may not be accepted. You can see your submission by clicking the ! in the gradebook. Make sure what you submitted is the correct document. I cannot allow any revisions to your submission after the deadline.
Both submissions are due to course documents by the deadline. I cannot accept any coursework after the deadline -- Dec 18, 10pm. Do not submit late. You will not get credit.
