Research Proposal: Format, Outline, and Topics

General Writing Advice

Posted: August 13, 2007

Fix of AwesomeResearch proposal is a brief (up to two pages) overview of your research paper, giving the reader sufficient information about the work you’ve done, about the way you did it and the value of this work.
 
As any other research work, research proposal has its own format. Its peculiarities are as follows:

  • a language simple enough for a non-specialist to understand the major points of the paper
  • absence of references, unusual terms, scientific jargon
  • a proposed researched question should be determined by one field of science
  • proposed researched question should be as specific as possible
  • research proposal should contain the following parts:

Title – a brief precise phrase rendering the main problem of your research proposal (up to 80 characters spaces including)
 
Abstract – a clear summary of the work you have done, throwing light on purposes, theoretical background of the question under consideration and experimental approach (up to 10 typed lines)
 
Historical Background – a section where you describe your predecessors’ deeds in the field you are studying now. Note that all information taken from different sources is to be referenced
 
Objective – an explanation of your paper’s value, naming concrete purposes to achieve
 
Technical Approach – a description of the actual work you are planning to accomplish and concrete ways of doing it (theoretical and research basis)
 
Bibliography – a reference list where you name all sources you have referred to or cited. Note that the items should go in an alphabetical order.
 
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    I am in the process of writing a research proposal in the education field. I am REALLY having a difficult time thinking of a topic. I am thought about THE EFFECTS OF SCHOOL UNIFORM ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. I have also thought about THE EFFECTS OF PEER PRESSURE ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. The peer pressure would be closely related to home due to the fact that I have teenagers going through peer pressure, but I am unsure if I am headed in the right direction. Can you help?

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    I would really appreciate.
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    Hello,

    I did masters in economics without research option.Now i want to persue a doctoral programme for which I have to forward a research propoal.I have decided to work on the role of monetary policy in capital formation in LDCs. I have no idea, how to prepare it.please help me

    Khadija

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