How To Write A Research Proposal
How To Write A Research Proposal
CMS : 47895
Subject : Research methodology
Submitted to : DR. Syed muhammad khair shab
How to write a research proposal?
Basically Research proposal is a brief summary of what are you going to research for
before preparing the research project in order to convince a group of concern
members that your work is worthwhile further it determine weather you are eligible
for conducting such a research. The text of the proposal vary in length between ten
to fifteen pages. Generally research proposal contains following segments.
1. Tentative Title.
Ideally the title should be short clear cut and understandable by the readers. In a
glance it should catch the attention of reviewers. However by refining your ideas and
reviewing the literature you may adjust your title.
2. Introduction
Actually the intro section provides a brief overview of the topic that you are going to
encounter like selecting a topic “inflation’ so you should provide enough knowledge
to clarify the term you used in a context moreover you should specify how you are
going to conduct your study and why its significant. What it can bring in the field.
How it will help the policy makers. Literally this section is not an essay by going over
every think you learn about the topic instead you must include the material relevant
to explaining your aim of research. By reading introduction your supervisor not only
understand the topic but also realize what outcomes your study are going to
produce.
3. Literature review
the purpose of literature review is to determine what has currently being explored
by others . which method they have used in their findings how you can refine your
ideas and objectives in their findings. The most essential part of literature review is
by identifying the research gap means what the previous researchers has an
unexplored and you have an opportunity to contribute in the area by providing new
insight and knowledge in the field in this way you enable the readers that your work
is appropriate and original.
5. Methodology
A brief description of proposed methodology to be used talking about how are you
going to answer such question practically? Thus here the objective is to convince the
readers that your overall research design and methods of analysis will accurately
address the problem and describe the the design how you gathered the data from
revving the literature be specific in methodological approach you obtain
information .the techniques and experiment you are going to analyze the data and
test the result or your point must be appropriate.
6. Resources and time scale
This is another source of determining your strength that weather you have the
essential resource required for project such as access to the data in many cases its
hard to find the relevant data some projects are also costly make sure you have
enough finance source the most important that could complete your research with a
given and mostly how you manage your time.
7. Working of bibliography
Lists every thing you used or counter while proposing your proposal any key
resources that's required for understanding of project . in either case this section is
important for the validity of your research to ensure that your work is not just
duplicate of others researchers. you have done extensive study while witting the
proposal so you should refer each resources you used during the study.
The aim of proposal is to justify that your proposed research is productive and
rationalize the need for your research problem even you should represent the
practical ways and describe detail methodology used in your proposal to achieve
your target . moreover it enable readers a summary of information in your project. in
this way you would develop your skills and thinking about designing a valuable
research study
Actually proposal might be done for two reasons firstly in order to convince the
concerned organization for whom you are doing research that your study is
worthwhile and you have competence to bring the desirable outcome so it should be
financed secondly in your PHD program your proposal determine what you have to
do for the next three to four years .