QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN

Provide an outline of the paper as you would anticipate writing it.  This is the only 

section of your paper that is not in paragraph form; see Turabian page 328 for a formatting 

sample.  Notice that your outline will not follow exactly the steps of your research design.  For 

example, scholarly papers almost never have a section called criteria for verification even 

though each stage of your research design will inform the paper in some important way.  In other 

words, a scholarly paper is about making a persuasive argument, not about outlining your 

research process (first I did this, then I did that).