Determining Ways to Elucidate

• Concept is a short summary that tells the reader what the project is, why it is important, and how it will be carried out
• Concept allows you the opportunity to define a research focus and obtain early feedback on the research idea.
• Concept Paper serves as a foundation of the full proposal
• Concept Paper helps determine whether a certain project is feasible or not
• Concept Papers are used to pique the intertest of the potential funding agencies
• Concept Papers are used to obtain informal feedback on the ideas prior to preparing the full proposal
• Concept Papers are an introduction to a full paper like thesis, full-blown research, project proposal, and the like
• Concept paper typically range from 2-5 double-spaced pages (500-1250 words), not including the bibliographies
• TYPES OF CONCEPT

  Singular Concepts are particular objects that serve as our units of study, analysis or observation. (people, places, things, social entities, etc.)
• TYPES OF CONCEPTS

  Class Concepts are the collections of objects with similar attributes which are used to categorize the units to be studied or analyzed. (politicians, cities, universities, television networks, etc.)
• TYPE OF CONCEPTS

  Relational Concepts are mainly used in research because they make connections between units or entities