Writing Exercises
1. Develop a topical outline for a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods proposal. Include the major topics in the examples in this
chapter.
2. Locate a journal article that reports qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research. Examine the introduction to the article and,
using the hook-and-eye method illustrated in this chapter, identify the flow of ideas from sentence to sentence and from paragraph to
paragraph and any deficiencies.
3. Consider one of the following ethical dilemmas that may face a researcher. Describe ways you might anticipate the problem and actively address it in your research proposal.
1. A prisoner you are interviewing tells you about a potential breakout at the prison that night. What do you do?
2. A researcher on your team copies sentences from another study and incorporates them into the final written report for your
project. What do you do?
3. A student collects data for a project from several individuals interviewed in families in your city. After the fourth interview, the
student tells you that approval has not been received for the project from the IRB. What will you do?
