Essay Question
You need to do a social research project on patients with a Chronic Illness. You have to decide
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which is the illness you wish to address (it is entirely up to you)
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what is the purpose of the study and what is your hypothesis
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literature background on the illness: brief description of the illness and how is the patient’s life affected, as described in the literature
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which research technique you wish to follow - quantitative or qualitative and what methodological tool you wish to use (e.g. closed questionnaire, or interview etc.) You need to explain why you decided that this is the best technique and tool
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you need to write down the questions you will use and explain the purpose of asking this question
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you will then have to use and describe the rest of the 7 steps of conducting a research and how you intend to use them.
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Conclusion: Are these patients allowed to be attributed the role of the sick? Why? How could these research findings be useful to health professionals?
Use of sources:
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You can use any valid scientific source you wish (books, journals, internet). You cannot use “lay” websites, such as Wikipedia.
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You need to include your sources in your text, as well as in a reference list at the end of the essay.
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The reference list will not be included in the word count.
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You are not allowed to list references that you have not used in your text.
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For the listing of your references you can use any reference style that you wish, as long as it is consistent in all your sources.
o For books: Author’s surname, Initial. (year) Book title; Publisher
o If there is more than one author, then we use commas and we list the rest exactly like the first one.
o For Chapters in books: Author’s surname, Initial. (year) “Chapter title. In Editor’s surname, initial, Book title. Publisher. Numbers of pages.
o For journal articles: Author’s surname, Initial. Title of Article. Name of the Journal; Issue, year: numbers of pages.
o If there is more than one author, then we use commas and we list the rest exactly like the first one.
o Internet: You list the authors as above, then you list the website and the date of retrieval.
Plagiarism:
You must develop this essay in YOUR OWN WORDS and not copy-paste. The maximum percentage of original text allowed is 10%. Anything above that will cost you points. To assist you, when you upload you essay, you will be able to see your percentage in Turnitin.