{"id":331,"date":"2019-05-15T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/?post_type=chapter&p=331"},"modified":"2019-05-15T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:00:29","slug":"writing-the-research-proposal","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/chapter\/writing-the-research-proposal\/","title":{"raw":"Writing the Research Proposal","rendered":"Writing the Research Proposal"},"content":{"raw":"As with writing any academic paper, research proposals are generally organized in the same manner across most social science disciplines.\u00a0 The page length of a research proposal depends upon the audience for whom the research proposal is being prepared.\u00a0 For example, research proposals being prepared for a doctoral degree, will have higher expectations and will likely run approximately 25 pages, excluding appendices and references.\u00a0 On the other hand, a research proposal being prepared for undergraduate level research might run approximately 10 pages, excluding appendices and references.\r\n\r\nBefore starting the writing process, a good place to start is to ask yourself a series of questions, as follows:\r\n
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  1. What do I want to study?<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. Why is the topic important?<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. In what ways is this topic significant within my particular field of study?<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. What problems will this research help to solve (i.e. social, cultural, safety, environmental, economic, business and\/or governance issue)?<\/li>\r\n \t
  5. How does it build upon and go beyond previous research on this topic?<\/li>\r\n \t
  6. What exactly should I plan to do?<\/li>\r\n \t
  7. Can I get it done in the time and with the resources available to me?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","rendered":"

    As with writing any academic paper, research proposals are generally organized in the same manner across most social science disciplines.\u00a0 The page length of a research proposal depends upon the audience for whom the research proposal is being prepared.\u00a0 For example, research proposals being prepared for a doctoral degree, will have higher expectations and will likely run approximately 25 pages, excluding appendices and references.\u00a0 On the other hand, a research proposal being prepared for undergraduate level research might run approximately 10 pages, excluding appendices and references.<\/p>\n

    Before starting the writing process, a good place to start is to ask yourself a series of questions, as follows:<\/p>\n

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    1. What do I want to study?<\/li>\n
    2. Why is the topic important?<\/li>\n
    3. In what ways is this topic significant within my particular field of study?<\/li>\n
    4. What problems will this research help to solve (i.e. social, cultural, safety, environmental, economic, business and\/or governance issue)?<\/li>\n
    5. How does it build upon and go beyond previous research on this topic?<\/li>\n
    6. What exactly should I plan to do?<\/li>\n
    7. Can I get it done in the time and with the resources available to me?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":724,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-331","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":325,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions\/332"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/325"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}