Students will be tasked to select a research topic and to define the problem statement. This research topic and problem statement will be used in the research briefs, literature review, methodology, and final paper assignments for this course.

Tasks

• Research Topic: Must be at least 4-5 sentences long. A research topic is the broad subject matter of the research. 

Problem Statement: includes a statement of the research objectives and the research questions. State the problem and the observations of the problem *See pages 24, 25, and 38-41 for more information.

• Research Questions: Specify what you want to learn about the topic. They guide and structure the process of collecting and analyzing information to help you attain the purpose of your study. In other words, research questions are the translation of the problem into a specific need for information.

Assignment three should be approximately  1 page.