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NSEC612 National Security and Diplomacy

Week 7 Assignment

Research Paper

Assignment Instructions

The three main sections you should add to what you have written for this submission are the Methodology and Research Strategy, Analysis and Findings, section and the Conclusions/Recommendations. Please be sure to make changes to the sections you have previously submitted based on feedback you have already received.

Methodology and Research Strategy: This section provides the reader with a description of how you carried out your qualitative research project, and the variables you identified and analyzed. It describes any special considerations and defines any limitations and terms specific to this project, if necessary. This section can be brief or more complicated, depending on the project.

Analysis and Findings: are not the same as conclusions. In the analysis component of this section you identify how you analyzed the data. The second part is the finding you got from your analysis of the data. The findings are the facts that you developed, not your interpretation of the facts. That interpretation is conducted in the conclusions and recommendations section of the paper. Findings will come from the prior research you examined and your analysis of those prior findings to create new findings for your paper. While there may be some facts that are such that they will stand and translate to your paper, the intent is to create new knowledge, so you will normally analyze the data to create your own findings of what facts that data represents.

Conclusions and Recommendations: is the section where you give your interpretation of the data. Here you tell the reader what the findings mean. Often the conclusions and recommendations sections will mirror the findings in construct as the researcher tells the reader what that researcher sees as the meaning of that data, their conclusions. Then, drawing on those conclusions, the researcher tells the reader what they believe needs to be done to solve/answer the research question. This section may include recognition of any needs for further research and then finishes with a traditional conclusion to the paper as a whole.

Technical Requirements:

Length: A minimum of 12-15 pages (including the other sections you have written, but not the cover, or reference pages), double spaced, 1″ margins, and 12 pitch type in Times New Roman font.

Citations/References: You must use Turabian formatting standards, parenthetical style for this assignment. You must include at least ten (10) sources, and eight (8) of which must be peer reviewed journal articles.

Submission: All work is to be submitted as an attachment to the assignment link by 11:55 pm on the due date. All work should be prepared in Microsoft Word format and submitted as an attachment.