Purpose Statement

The purpose of this descriptive study is to explore how minority business owners describe the barriers they faced in securing funding for their businesses.

This section begins with one sentence that identifies the research methodology, design, problem statement, target population, and geographic location. This is presented as a declarative statement: "The purpose of this qualitative $[$design$]$ study is to $...[$include the Problem Statement$]$ at a $[$setting$/$geographic location$]."$

The learner introduces how the study will be carried out.

The learner writes this section in a way that is well structured, has a logical flow, uses correct paragraph structure, sentence structure, punctuation, and APA format.