Proposal Construction: Chapter 1 to 3: Chapter 1 Part 2:

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Research proposal contains 2 mains points:

What do you want to achieve?
  • Connected with factors you have selected for this study
  • What are you going to study (Independent variables, Dependent variables, Mediating / Moderating variables?
How will you achieve it?
  • Connected with epistemology or approach of study,
  • How you are going to investigate, is it through quantitative or qualitative or is it through mix method?
  • How is connected with your approach?


A winnable Research Proposal: What it takes??
  • Communicate idea that is different from the past (novelty & originality)
  • New and contextualise to the local context
  • An extension of previous studies. Filling up significant component that other cannot complete or left out for next researcher e.g. Methodological gap, Literature gap, Theory gap, Size gap, Population gap,
  • Significant implication brings into the picture: Practical, Theoretical, Methodological, Policy, Managerial,
  • Strong problem situation supported by argumentative literature with hypothesis-based literature. What argument researcher is going to express for the study to be made?  
  • Strong Methodology Invite: Best methodology or method or process or tools that can be invited into the thesis to accomplish your thesis outcome

Note: In PhD, look at how much is theoretical and practical implication. In qualitative research, it goes more on methodological rather than practical, when researcher does qualitative, theoretical and methodological implication are very most important. If it is more connected to quantitative is more on practical implication. 
If someone asked why are you going to do the research? and what motivate you to do the research?. You must be able to answer these 2 questions:

  1. What are you going to fill it up? (significant implications)  
  2. How are you going to fill it up (how it is going to be beneficial to the society or the people)? 

 Sources from: Professor Dr. Dileep Workshop on Proposal Construction - Writing Chapter 1 To 
Chapter 3 on 30 June 2019

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