Next, provide a purpose statement that conveys your intentions about what you hope to produce.

1. An introductory paragraph about your research topic and why it is of interest and a research “puzzle.” You want to guide your reader from your research area to your research topic, then on to your general research question, and specific research question.
While there are many ways to frame a research question, your research questions should be 1) open-ended and start with “How,” “Why,” “What,” or “To what extent;” 2) should incorporate the variables you seek to assess and their relationship; and 3) should indicate how you intend to test the nature of that relationship. You want to make sure that your question has an appropriate amount of complexity so that it requires a significant amount of research and analysis.
2.Next, provide a purpose statement that conveys your intentions about what you hope to produce. Your purpose statement should demonstrate what you are hoping to find out and explain what you want your readers to understand (motivation or argument of the research).
3.Pull out the dependent (DV) and independent variable(s) (IV) that you are interesting it looking at. This needs to be specific, and you need to discuss ideas for how you might go about measuring the impact that the IV as on the DV. You need to focus on one or two specific variables (and discuss how they are defined), Finally, explain why these are the important variables to look at within this research project. Why focus on these variables and not other variables?