Capstone Research and TRIO McNair Undergraduate Research Guide

Before beginning your paper, you will need to design the study. 

The research design refers to the overall strategy that you choose to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby, ensuring you will effectively address the research problem; it constitutes the blueprint for the collection, measurement, and analysis of data. Note that your research problem determines the type of design you can use, not the other way around! 

• General Structure & Writing Style
• Action Research Design
• Case Study Design
• Causal Design
• Cohort Design
• Cross-Sectional Design
• Descriptive Design
• Experimental Design
• Exploratory Design
• Historical Design
• Longitudinal Design
• Observational Design
• Philosophical Design
• Sequential Design

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Part 1, What Is Research Design? The Context of Design. Performance Studies Methods Course syllabus. New York University, Spring 2006; Trochim, William M.K. Research Methods Knowledge Base. 2006.