our first draft of this thesis project should be in an APA research format along with a complete detailed record of the entire research process. The research paper will be at least 25 pages (excluding all Appendixes, Charts, Graphs and Reafference page/s) with double spaced, 12 pt. New Times Roman and in APA format.
Your draft of your thesis project should include:
- Cover Page
- Table of Contents
- Abstract or executive summary of your research which covers information on your topic
- The statement of the research problem as you have stated in your proposal
- Research questions: List your research questions which you tried to answer by this research
- Research design and method: Is your research qualitative or quantitative, descriptive, explanative, explorative, evaluative, relational or cause and effect
- Literature Review: You should have at least fifteen (15) separate scholarly sources listed in the text with proper APA format. The sources should be varied, (not all from Internet sources). You must put very serious effort into keeping track of sources and properly citing them.
- Research Hypothesis and data collection techniques, if you use quantitative research method, describe your data collection techniques. Did you use the data from existed database collected by someone else? Or did you collected data by yourself using surveys, questioners, observations, etc.?
- Data analysis: Before you discuss and analyze your data, you must reorganize and summarize them into a form of tables, charts and/or graphs. You must then interpret or give substantive or theoretical meaning of your data.
- Conclusion: Here you should now be able to answer you research questions.
- Research Limitation/s if any
- Recommendations for future study
- Reference Page: This information should be on a separate page in APA format. The sources should be varied, (not all Internet sources).
- Appendixes (Tables, Graphs and/or Charts). Be sure to cite and document charts and graphs from other sources. Charts and/or graphs should not stand alone. They should complement textual description

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