Student Affairs Issue Project: Rough Draft Assignment Instructions

The purpose of the Student Affairs Issue Project is to assist the PhD candidate with formulating his or her thoughts around a very important issue in today’s higher education culture. You will learn how to investigate issues and determine best practices for possible resolutions to the issue by articulating possible solutions.

From the professional associations’ websites or the higher education news agencies choose a current student affairs issue being discussed (i.e., free speech, gender, racial equity, student debt). Develop a research question, narrowed to investigate a particular issue pertaining to student affairs. Submit your research question/and topic with your article critique and rough draft.

Research question details: In developing a research question, be sure to do a thorough review of the Jerry Falwell Library resources, various higher education news agencies, and course material. Be sure you have a narrow student affairs issue with plenty of research material. You can determine the type (quantitative or qualitative) of research question and scope.

The purpose of the Student Affairs Issue rough draft is to give the candidate an opportunity to put his or her thoughts together in preparation for the final paper. By doing so, the candidate has an excellent opportunity for available tutoring resources to assist with producing the very best possible outcome for the final paper.

You will write a 1,500–1,750-word current APA-formatted rough draft. The content of the draft must build upon the research question/topic and critique. The paper must include a minimum of 6 scholarly sources. The primary sources could be an ebook, book, journal article, or course material. You must synthesize all research into a well-blended paper that clearly addresses the research question/topic.

For further details about the criteria of the rough draft, refer to the instructions and grading rubric for the Student Affairs Issue Project: Research Paper. Please. citations, reference, no plagiarism the paper will be checked for plagiarism. The report should be no more than 2% if it is more than 2%. I will ask you to redo