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Purpose Statement Paper Assignment Instructions
The purpose statement paper includes the specific purpose statement for the research. The purpose statement clearly explains the main goal of the study, what the study is hoping to accomplish, how and with whom among other things. This is the culmination of the previous sections where you have set the scene, explained the problem and continued to bring the reader to a better understanding of the need for your specific study. The purpose statement is going to keep your study focused setting up specific guidelines and context for you to concentrate on. In this paper, you must use the specific model provided to you by Creswell and Poth on page 161 filling in the appropriate blanks. You must use the following “The purpose of this qualitative case study is to (fill in blank – understand, describe, develop, discover) the (fill in the blank – central phenomenon of the study) for (fill in the blank – the participants) at (fill in the blank – the site)”. In keeping with our previous example, perhaps one could use “The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand the impact of leadership communication methods for employee productivity in private Christian universities in the northeast United States.”
Your purpose statement paper should be between three and five pages, excluding the title page, abstract, and reference page and use the Robson and Creswell/Poth textbooks, along with three other academic scholarly references on the methods chosen. Again, the body of the paper should be between three and five pages.
Your paper must include:
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.