If you are building a basic APA style research proposal, check out the video below. This video outlines the basic elements of the standard research proposal and pays attention to some of the finer details of the introduction, literature review, and methods sections. Note that these are the basic elements. Your professor might want more specific components or might ask you to do things in a slightly different order within each major section.
If you need assistance with in-text citations, the basic set-up or the reference page, please be sure to look at our other tutorials.
If you would like to take notes as you watch, you will find a PDF of the major slides listed below. You can download it or open it in a new window.
You will also find a document describing the basic nature of the literature review. For more information on how to build a literature review, check out our next tutorial.