Question: Reserarch Proposal
Prepare your Research Proposal for approval by your Faculty Member, following this general outline:
- Topic, Research Objectives, Context, and Rationale
- Present your topic, research question, objectives for conducting the research, the context for your research question and your rationale for choosing it, using references to the research literature for support.
- Methodology and Methods
- Select and analyse your chosen research paradigm and its impact on your research question.
- Describe your chosen methodology and how it relates to your research question.
- Critically analyse the strengths and weakness of choosing this particular methodology, including why you did not select an alternative methodology.
- Discuss the types of data you intend to collect with your chosen methodology.
- Present a data collection and analysis plan and detail the following:
- How do your strategies for data collection and analysis align with your methodology and research question?
- What other data collection and analysis strategies could you have considered to answer your research question? Why did you choose to exclude these strategies?
- Critically analyse the ethical implications of your research methodology and methods and explain how you will address any ethical challenges.
- Be sure to support all of your decisions about methodology and methods with references to relevant literature.
- Practical Considerations and Plan for Completion
- Describe the potential challenges you might encounter in collecting and interpreting your research data and what you might do to minimize these issues.
- Explain how you would present your data and what presentation format would you use to convey the results to your audience.
- Comment on how you would reduce the chances for misinterpretation of your data.