In this assignment, you will begin the process of formally documenting your research proposal. Remember that the issue that you are researching should be relevant to your own fire department or the fire service as a whole. You will need to justify this.

In this assignment, you will finish the process of formally documenting your research proposal. Update and expand the
weaker areas of your existing paper based on your professor’s feedback from your Unit III submission, and assemble the
following elements:
Title page
Table of contents
Introduction to the issue
Problem statement
Purpose statement
Research questions/hypotheses
Background and significance
Provide background of the problem.
How is it relevant to your fire department or the fire service?
Why is this study needed?
Literature review
This is more than just an annotated bibliography!
Write a critical examination of the major issues of your topic.
Procedures/Research Methods
Document the detailed and logical steps you will take to complete your study.
Who is your study population?
Will a sample or the total population be used?
How will you collect data?
How will you maintain participant confidentiality (if appropriate)?
Result/Summary/Conclusion
References
Your final proposal submission must be at least seven pages in length, not counting the required title or reference pages.
You are required to use at least two sources in addition to the textbook.
Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are
used. Please note that no abstract is needed.