Writing Assignment & Final Proposal
- Prompt: Submit the three critical elements that your Findings must contain, as explained in the lecture for this week’s assignment. First, state the issue or question and then answer the question or issue. There are three essential elements that your Findings must address.
- Requirements: Two (2) pages; not more than 500 words in APA format
Final Project:
- Prompt: Portfolio assignment will be reviewed by Turnitin.com for originality review and APA format compliance of secondary research sources.
Prepare the formal capstone research project using the following guidelines:
- A minimum of 20-30 pages, typed, double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman font, using APA standards for reference sources
- The format of the capstone research project must follow Appendix D – Major Components of Research Case Studies
- Written in the third person, past tense (because the research is now complete, over, and finished)
- An appropriate and applicable biblical principle associated with each major section and subsection of the research proposal
- A Literature Review of existing secondary research sources on your chosen subject of research (minimum 5 pages)
- A bibliography (also called Reference Page or Works Cited) with a minimum of 10 references are required, including the text, The Holy Bible(New Living Translation), books and articles from academic sources (Net Library), and other periodicals
Oral presentation:
Prompt: Integrating your understanding from the assigned readings from the textbooks, develop and submit Microsoft PowerPoint slides of an oral presentation of Appendix D from the syllabus as if you were going to present your formal, completed capstone research project in front of an actual audience.
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
PROJECT III
MPA61
3
Hall #
7
Oral Presentation of the Research Case Study
1
• Developing professional oral presentation skills
for success in education and work
• Learning to develop the proper format in formal
presentations of research case studies orally (the
equivalent of the graduate thesis oral defense)
• Understanding the development of
professional lecture slides
2
Introduction to Hall
• Develop lecture slides properly
• Understand visual aid competency
• Consider different media integration for the
delivery of professional oral presentations
• Integrate biblical principles (the Christian
Worldview) in the development of visual
media presentation methods
3
• Understanding professional oral
presentations from a Christian Worldview
• Appreciating honor and integrity in the
development of visual aids in oral
presentations
• Developing a professional oral presentation
of scholarly research
4
• Consider various media options for
delivering interesting and informative oral
presentations
• Learn the proper development of competent
lecture slides for oral presentations
• Articulating completed research studies
through a formal oral presentation
5
• Understanding the need for honor, integrity, and
truth through the Christian worldview in
delivering oral presentations
• Developing professional and scholarly writing
and oral presentation skills
• Learning to develop proper forms and formats
for oral presentations and lecture slides
• Continue the development of scholarly research
skills in presenting a completed research project
through a professional, formal presentation
6
• “The tongue of the wise useth knowledge
aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out
foolishness” (Proverbs 15:2).
• “Apply thine heart unto instruction, and
thine ears to the words of knowledge”
(Proverbs 23:12)
7
• Because of the age of technology,
professional educators advise that oral
presentations stimulate the audience’s
attention through visual media
applications and engagement of the
audience, or participation. How do you
do that?
8
▫ Professional educators recommend that
each slide contain no less than one (1)
major topic or subject, and not more than
three (3) to five (5) topics or subjects for
the viewing audience because more than
five (5) subjects and/or sub-topics is too
complex for the viewing audience to filter
and analyze. To do that we must analyze
the size of the fonts and the themes or
scripts of the font chosen for the lecture
slides.
9
• Size of fonts: At the top of the page of Microsoft
PowerPoint slides is a tool bar. Let’s examine
various sizes of fonts for presentation sizes
▫ Size
10
is way too small to view
▫ Size
14
is still way to small, especially for a classroom or auditorium audience sitting
in the last row
▫ Size
20
is getting better, depending on the amount of
information you want to include on each slide
▫ Size 24, Size 28, Size 32, Size 36, and
Size 40 and 44 are adequate
▫Size 44 is getting too big!
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Fonts -Explained
• Font Themes or scripts are also
important. This is a size
32
font,
Georgia script, or Theme. Traditional
PowerPoint slide Themes are Georgia
or Trebuchet. Examining some other
scripts: Arial Black, Berlin Sans FB Demi,
AlgeriAn, Rockwell Extra Bold, Brush
Script MT, Goudt Stout,
Stencil, Times New Roman, all size 32 font
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Fonts -Explained
• Font Themes or scripts – continued
• Blackladder ITC script, Chiller script, Edwardian Script,
Freestyle Script, French Script MT
• It is important to use block faced
scripts for clarity and avoid hand-
writing or penmanship scripts for ease
of audience viewership
• Additionally: Georgia plain script, bold
script, bold italacized, plain italacized
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Once you choose a font theme for Headings, you
may choose another font theme for the body of
the visual presentation
Consistency throughout the visual presentation is
important in maintaining uniformity and
standardization
Too much variety and diversity is a
distraction to the audience
13
• The control bar at the top of the page allows you
to choose from a variety of slide designs
• The control bar also allows you to insert
pictures, clip art, shapes, charts, tables and
sounds, even movie clips and animations.
• To become proficient in developing professional
oral presentations supported by visual media
requires practice for attaining familiarity and
competency
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The Formal Research Project
The Oral Presentation
• In developing your personal oral presentation of your
completed research case study, please follow the
guidelines provided below, and in the Syllabus at the end
of Week 8 – Major Components of Research Case
Studies. This handout in the syllabus provides an
outline of the major topics to be addressed and
presented in your oral presentation. We will individually
examine each major subject, subsection, and
subcomponent of subsections of the project.
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Example of the Formal Research Oral
Presentation = Graduate Thesis Oral Defense
Start with:
Section I. Overview of the organization and your
focus.
A. Statement of purpose – description of
situation, the issue or problem you researched,
your reason for selecting it, and a needs
statement (justification for the study, what
problem would be it solved). (Add appropriate
biblical principle)
▫ Produced within a single slide!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
Continue with:
B. Research question or management decision to be made – the
question you asked to try to solve the problem mentioned in the
statement of purpose. The question should not be open-ended or
too broad. In the case of a program or policy decision, it should
be stated succinctly, with supporting items for analysis (the
elements that you had to investigate for the decision to be made).
The research question helps to narrowly define the scope of your
research. Written in third person, past tense.
• (Add appropriate biblical principle)
▫ Produced within a single slide!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
Continue with:
C. Hypothesis – an educated guess (or
assumption ) of what you thought the research
would reveal. Written in the third person, past
tense because you research is now over,
complete, finished.
• (Add appropriate biblical principle)
▫ Produced within a single slide!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
Continue with:
D. Plan of study
1. Major descriptive tasks ( needed to complete the
research)
2. Working objectives (needed to complete the
research)
• These should be presented as succinct bullet lists, not long
narrative, descriptive summaries in complete sentences
• (Add appropriate biblical principle)
▫ Produced within a single slide!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
Continue with:
II. Theoretical perspective (the base of knowledge
to which your research contributed).
• (Add appropriate biblical principle)
• Produced within a single slide!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
Continue with:
A. Literature Review
• Review of current theory or literature (secondary
research sources)
• List a minimum of ten (10) existing sources
• May present narrative summary of what each
provided or contributed to your research case
study
• (Add appropriate biblical principle)
• May be produced in a two slides!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
Continue with:
III. Research Methodology
(Add appropriate biblical principle)
A. Data Collection – Explain in narrative summary how
you collected your primary data
▫ Explain your protocol for collecting data (quantitative or
qualitative)
▫ List Primary sources of data (bullet list)
▫ List Secondary sources of data (bullet list of general categories
you used)
• May be produced in a two-three slides!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
Continue with:
B. Data Management and Analyses
These are narrative summaries on how you managed the
primary data once you collected it and the type of
analyses you applied to the data, either
Quantitative and/or Qualitative, using
Inductive Reasoning or Deductive
Reasoning
• (Apply an appropriate biblical principle)
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
C. Case study application discussion
1. List the advantages of case studies (both
primary and universal advantages)
2. List the limitations of research case
studies (both primary and secondary
limitations)
• (Apply an appropriate biblical principle)
• May be produced in a two-three slides!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
IV. Research Case Study Presentation (Add
appropriate biblical principle)
• This is a summary of the individual research narrative
story of what the researcher did and how s/he did it.
Written in the third person, past tense, it is the
integration of all research components learned to-date in
a completed capstone analysis. It is usually the most
lengthy, voluminous section of the written capstone
project because it is the researcher’s own research story.
• May be produced in a three-five slides!
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Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
V. Findings (Add appropriate biblical principle)
• First, the researcher’s primary findings must specifically
answer the research question and the preliminary
research hypothesis. Secondarily, the individual case
study findings must agree with and reinforce the
secondary research sources (the literature review), or
disagree and refute the secondary research sources on
the research subject.
• May be produced in a two-four slides!
• May add two-four graphs, charts, or tables
demonstrating most important Findings
26
• Congratulations! You have
now successfully completed a
professional oral presentation,
with visual aids, of a formal
research case study!
27
• Developing professional oral presentation skills
for success in education and work
• Learning to develop the proper format in formal
presentations in orally delivering completed
research case studies
• Understanding the development of professional
lecture slides
28
• Consider different media integration for
the delivery of professional oral
presentations
• Develop lecture slides properly
• Understand visual aid competency
• Integrate biblical principles (the Christian
Worldview) in the development of visual
media presentation methods
29
• Take the Hall Quiz
• Complete your detailed reading
• Answer the discussion questions
• Complete the writing assignments
30
• MPA613 Syllabus – Major Components of
Research Case Studies
• The Holy Bible (King James Version)
31
“Lead me , O Lord, in thy rigtheousness because of
mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their
inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open
sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. Destroy thou
them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast
them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for
they have rebelled against thee”
(Psalms 5: 8-10)
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- MANAGEMENT RESEARCH �PROJECT III � MPA613
- The Formal Research Project�The Oral Presentation
- Example of the Formal Research Oral Presentation = Graduate Thesis Oral Defense
- Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Introduction to Hall
Introduction to Hall
Topics we’ll cover in Hall 7
Topics we’ll cover – continued
Hall Objectives
Biblical Foundation
Lecture Information Begins
Visual Aid Development
Fonts -Explained
Fonts -Explained
Fonts -Explained
Fonts and Scripts – continued
Slide Development – continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Ending the Presentation
Recap of Hall 7
Recap of Hall 7 – continued
What next?
References
Concluding Hall 7
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
PROJECT III
MPA61
3
Hall #
8
Bringing it All Together
1
• Developing professional research and writing
skills for success in education and work
• Learning to develop the proper format in
delivering written research case studies
• Understanding the formal organization and
development of a professional, written
research case study
2
• Appreciate the need for a humble spirit and the
integration of biblical principles (the Christian
Worldview) for maintaining honest research
• Creating a professional strategy in
completing research
• Presenting the
completed research
project
3
• Understanding professionally written
research case studies from a Christian
Worldview
• Appreciating honor and integrity in the
development of thorough written research
case studies
• Developing a professional and scholarly
written research case study
4
• Understanding the need for honor, integrity, and
truth through the Christian worldview in
delivering written research
• Developing professional and scholarly writing
and research skills
• Learning to develop proper forms and formats in
a professional research case studies
• Delivering scholarly written research case
studies
5
“All things are full of labour: man
cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied
with seeing, nor the ear with hearing.
The thing that hath been, it is that which
shall be; and that which is done is that
which shall be done: and there is no new
thing under the sun.”
(Ecclesiastes 1:8-9)
6
Biblical Foundation
• “All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I
will be wise; but it was far from me. That
which is far off, and exceeding deep, who
can find it out? I applied mine heart to know,
and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and
the reason of things, and to know the
wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and
madness:”
(Ecclesiastes 7:23-25)
7
• Much of what you see this week
appears to be repetitive and redundant
from MPA608 Research Methods-
Project II, because it is. It is intended
to be repetitive for purposes of
scholarly reinforcement of research
knowledge and scholarly and
professional competency in research
8
Throughout the previous weeks,
during this course of instruction,
you have been developing individual
components of the formal research
case study which will now be
consolidated into a formal,
professionally developed, written
research case study
9
MPA6
13
– The Capstone Project
Here, in MPA613, Research Phase III, you will
reproduce ALL that you have developed from
MPA608, your research proposal, but, you
will be adding significant components now
that you completed your research, collected
and interpreted the data you collected
throughout your research effort, which you
will now report on.
10
• This will be your narrative research
story of what you did and how you
did it. How you conducted your
research. Written in the third
person, past tense. Your MPA
capstone research project is the
equivalent of a graduate thesis in
another disciple
11
You will also be adding your Findings
section
• Findings. Your primary research
Findings must answer the primary
research question as well as your
hypothesis (assumptions). Secondarily,
your Findings must agree with and
reinforce your secondary research
sources or disagree and refute them
12
You may also add a Conclusion
section, but that is optional, at your
discretion
• Conclusions, how are they different than
Findings? Many researchers and
graduate students treat them
synonymously and interchangeably, but
they are two separate and distinct
analytical functions
13
Findings are what the collected
primary research data reveals.
Conclusions, on the other hand, are
an analytical process that the
researcher conducts to explain
his/her interpretation of the data
collected and interpreted
14
MPA613 – The Capstone Project-cont.
Additionally, if you are conducting a
decision focus case, analyzing a problem
and recommending a solution, you may
have a Recommendations section in your
capstone project, particularly if you are
recommending how an agency,
organization, or individual supervisor or
program administrator may improve the
proficiency and competency of their
program or performance in any
particular area.
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MPA613 – The Capstone Project-cont.
Whereas the MPA608 formal research
proposal was written in the future tense,
as to what the researcher was proposing
to do and how to do it, the MPA613
capstone project is written in the third-
person, past tense because the research is
over, done, and completed. Avoid all first-
person references: I, Me. Use third person
references, such as, researcher.
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The Formal, Written
Research Case Study
All the components outlined for you in the
Syllabus in Appendix D – Major
Components of Research Case
Studies, will now be consolidated into a
thoroughly integrated, comprehensive
written research capstone project.
17
Start with:
Section I. Overview of the organization and your
focus.
A. Statement of purpose – description of
situation, the issue or problem researched,
your reason for selecting it, and a needs
statement (justification for the study, what
problem will it solve).
(Add appropriate biblical principle).
18
The written Formal Research Project
submittal -continued
Continue with:
B. Research question or management decision to be
made – the question you asked to try to solve the
problem mentioned in the statement of purpose. The
question should not be open-ended or too broad. In
the case of a program or policy decision, it should be
stated succinctly, with supporting items for analysis
(the elements that you must investigate for the
decision to be made). The research question helps to
narrowly define the scope of your research.
(Add appropriate biblical principle).
19
The written Formal Research Project
submission -continued
Continue with:
C. Hypothesis – an educated guess. If you are
conducting primary research to gather and
analyze data based on your research question,
you will have a hypothesis (or assumption) of
what you thought the research would reveal.
• (Add appropriate biblical principle).
20
The written Formal Research Project
submission -continued
Continue with:
D. Plan of study
1. Major descriptive tasks ( needed to complete
the research)
2. Working objectives (needed to complete the
research)
• These should be presented as succinct bullet lists, not long
narrative, descriptive summaries
(Add appropriate biblical principle)
21
The written Formal Research Project
submission -continued
Continue with:
II. Theoretical perspective (which base of
knowledge your research will continue to).
(Add appropriate biblical principle)
22
The written Formal Research Project
submission -continued
Continue with:
A. Literature Review
• Review of current theory or literature (secondary
research sources) (five pages minimum)
• List a minimum of ten (10) existing sources
• May present narrative summary of what each
provides or contributes to your research case study
(Add appropriate biblical principle).
23
The written Formal Research Project
submission -continued
Continue with:
III. Research Methodology
(Add an applicable biblical principle)
A. Data Collection – Explain in narrative summary how
you collected your primary research data
▫ Explain your protocol for collecting data (quantitative or
qualitative)
▫ List Primary sources of data (bullet list)
▫ List Secondary sources of data (bullet list of general categories
you envision using
24
The written Formal Research Project
submission -continued
Continue with:
B. Data Management and Analyses
These are narrative summaries on how you managed the
primary research data you collected it and the type of
analyses you applied to the data, either
Quantitative and/or Qualitative, using
Inductive Reasoning or Deductive
Reasoning
(Apply an appropriate biblical principle)
25
The written Formal Research Project
submission -continued
You will continue with:
C. Case study application discussion
1. List the advantages of case studies (both
primary and universal advantages)
2. List the limitations of research case
studies (both primary and secondary
limitations)
(Apply an appropriate biblical principle)
26
Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
IV. Research Case Study Presentation (Add
appropriate biblical principle)
• This is a summary of the individual research narrative
story of what the researcher did and how s/he did it.
Written in the third person, past tense, it is the
integration of all research components learned to-date in
a completed capstone analysis. It is usually the most
lengthy, voluminous section of the written capstone
project because it is the researcher’s own research story.
27
Example of the Formal Research Project
Oral Presentation -continued
V. Findings (Add appropriate biblical principle)
• First, the researcher’s primary findings must
specifically answer the research question and the
preliminary research hypothesis. Secondarily,
the individual case study findings must agree
with and reinforce the secondary research
sources (the literature review), or disagree and
refute the secondary research sources on the
research subject.
28
• Congratulations! Now you
have successfully completed a
professional and formal written
research proposal!
29
• Developing professional research and
writing skills for success in education and
work
• Learning to develop the proper format in
delivering written research projects
• Understanding the organization and
development of a professional,
written research projects
30
• Appreciate the need for a humble spirit
and the integration of biblical principles
(the Christian Worldview) for maintaining
honest research
• Reviewing your personal research strategy
and written plan to conduct the research
31
• Take the Hall Quiz
• Complete your detailed reading
• Answer the discussion questions
• Complete the writing assignments
32
• MPA613 Syllabus – Major Components of
Research Case Studies
• The Holy Bible (King James Version)
33
34
“For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all
this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works,
are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or
hatred by all that is before them. All things come alike
to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the
wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the
unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him who
sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he
that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. This is an evil
among all things that are done under the sun, that
there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the
sons of man is full of evil, and madness is in their heart
while they live, and after that they go to the dead.”
(Ecclesiastes 9:1-3)
• “All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it:
the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled
with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that
which shall be; and that which is done is that which
shall be done: there is no new thing under the sun”
(Ecclesiastes 1:8-9)
• “Buy the truth, and sell it not: also wisdom, and
instruction, and understanding”
(Proverbs 23:23)
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- MANAGEMENT RESEARCH �PROJECT III � MPA613
- The Formal, Written �Research Case Study�
- The written Formal Research Project submittal -continued
- The written Formal Research Project submission -continued
- Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Introduction to Hall 8
Introduction to Hall 8 – continued
Topics we’ll cover in Hall 8
Hall Objectives
Biblical Foundation
Biblical Foundation
Lecture Information Begins
Presenting Research Case Studies
MPA613 – The Capstone Project
Case Study Presentation?????
MPA613 – The Capstone Project
MPA613 – The Capstone Project-cont
MPA613 – The Capstone Project-cont.
MPA613 – The Capstone Project-cont.
MPA613 – The Capstone Project-cont.
The Formal Written Research Project
The written Formal Research Project submission -continued
The written Formal Research Project submission -continued
The written Formal Research Project submission -continued
The written Formal Research Project submission -continued
The written Formal Research Project submission -continued
The written Formal Research Project submission -continued
Example of the Formal Research Project Oral Presentation -continued
Ending the Presentation
Recap of Hall 8
Recap of Hall 8 – continued
What next?
References
This concludes Hall 8
Concluding Hall 8