This week you will write your draft Models/Hypotheses section. You can construct this section as a set of questions to be answered or as models/hypotheses to be tested. In general, NSF expects that you will follow the scientific method -- that there will be models, test expectations, and methods that will follow from the expectations. Your research should be problem oriented with the potential to generalize the results and/or methods elsewhere. It is important that you show that you are considering alternative explanations (in other words, that you haven't already decided on the answer and are just seeking a means of getting there). It is also important that you provide a way to deal with nullifying your hypothesis.

1. Write an introductory paragraph that restates your research question. Here you might also discuss any pilot studies you have done and how the current research will build on them.
    
2. For each model, provide the following:
   1. statement of the model (usually with heading "Model 1:brief title to model")
   2. brief justification for model with relevant citations to other research that support your position.
   3. test implications with justification for each ("if this model is correct, then I expect:"X")
   4. possibly (depending on your own proposal structure) provide a statement of how you will interpret negative results -- do they nullify the model or point in a specific other direction

   
    

3. Do your models flow logically from your theoretical background section? If not, this would be the time to rethink either your theoretical background section or your models section.