Graduate students in general and those in Workforce Education & Development in particular are often frustrated when they are assigned the task of writing a research paper, thesis, or dissertation. After teaching a research methodology course for several years, the editors of Research Pathways have discovered a solution to resolve the frustration experienced by graduate students as they approach the writing stage of their academic degree program. Based upon the students' participation in the research colloquium, there has been expressed a tremendous need for a comprehensive handbook of this nature to describe and discuss a practical approach to writing those final graduate research reports. This handbook introduces a practical approach to writing research papers, theses, and dissertations in Workforce Education & Development, with examples and best practices for the practitioners and researchers.

Contributions by: Edwin L. Herr, Pamela Bettis, James Gregson, Carol A. Wright, Saundra Wall Williams, James L. Burrow, Gregory Petty, Fadia M. Nassar, Ernest Brewer, Derek Mulenga, Lee Jones, Barbara Farmer, Theodore Lewis, Roger B. Hill, Gene Gloeckner, Jeffrey A. Gliner, Suzanne M. Tochterman, George A. Morgan, Paul E. Krueger, Li-Shyung Hwang, Zhicheng Zhang, Jeffrey Chen, Stephen J. Olejnik, Brian Hess, Carl J Huberty, Mohamed H. Hussein, Curtis R. French, Sherilee Carpenter