Writing a good research proposal is critical for starting an effective research career. The quality of a research proposal is often a decision maker for a study program, PhD, or other research related job opportunities. A weak research proposal often results in rejection causing time, financial, and psychological loss. For a good research proposal, I will like to list down following tips that I accumulated over the time during my research. Once a former colleague of mine (Dr. Sven Apel) suggested following for a research proposal to our research group colleagues:
In research proposal, we have to answer following questions:
- What is the general problem (area)?
- Why is it important?
- What specific problem (in the general area) are we working on?
- Why is its solution important?
- Why does solving the specific problem worthy of an Independent Study?
Over the time with my research experience, I always asks my students to format their research proposal according to the following structure, however, it may vary according to the requirements of a research problem:
- Abstract
- Introduction and Motivation
- Related Concepts
- Related Work
- Hypotheses
- Implementation Technologies
- Conclusion
Few good online resources regarding the research proposal writing that I found interesting can be found at following links:
- Selection of Research Topic, Novel Idea?? Mother of All Successful Proposals also available online at (Selection of Research Topic, Novel Idea?? Mother of All Successful Proposals)
- Writing a good research proposal, Prabhas Chongstitvatana, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
- Basic concepts of research proposal and Steps of research proposal development, Dr. Pushpa Raj Sharma, Professor Department of Child Health, Institute of Medicine
Disclaimer: Author of blog has only downloaded and shared the resources from the internet for the sole purpose of knowledge sharing.
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