CRESWELL'S PURPOSE STATEMENT

The purpose of this  TYPE OF STUDY was to  DISCOVER/DETERMINE/DEVELOPE/EXPLORE the  CENTRAL PHENOMENON BEING STUDIED for/in the context of  WHO'S AFFECTED? at/when  WHERE OR WHEN?. The  YOUR DV was generally defined as  GENERAL EXPLANATION (NOT OPERATIONALIZATION). To that end, we asked the following research questions: RQ1:  YOUR PRIMARY RESEARCH QUESTION. RQ2:  YOUR SECONDARY RESEARCH QUESTION (these can be an indented list, rather than embedded in the paragraph). We hypothesized/anticipated/etc. that  YOUR PRIMARY PREDICTION. We also expected that  YOUR SECONDARY HYPOTHESIS .