Identify why the research is worth doing. What is the significance of the research?

Order Description

Write a research proposal for possible primary research or evaluation in an area of interest to you
and build on your work from Assignments 1 and 2.

Presentation
The proposal should include the following numbered sections, which means that each section must
be succinct without leaving out any important information (thus brief but not vague). Under each
section are some suggestions as to what it might contain, but it can vary depending on the nature of
the research. The use of a research proposal/thesis template is advised to ensure a contents page
is generated and shows an overview of the proposal.
1. Title of research project, your name and the date
o Ensure your title is clear and specific to the nature of the research.
2. Introduction/Overview
o Briefly introduce your project.
o Identify what your research will address, what it will attempt to do and how you
attempt to do it.
o Identify the problem to ensure that it is clear and that it warrants research.
3. Rationale/Significance of the Research
o Identify why the research is worth doing. What is the significance of the
research? For whom is it important? Why?
4. Literature Review and Theoretical Framework
o Provide a brief critique and review of previous research. This will help situate
your research in the body of knowledge and justify why your research is
required, and what gap in the literature it is filling.
o Given the word limit of this assignment, you can situate your brief literature
review and theoretical framework in Section 2 as a way to introduce your
proposal.
5. Aims/Hypotheses/Specific Research Questions
o Identify your research questions and/or hypotheses. Make sure they are clear
and succinct.
o Ensure your methodology is able to address these.
2
o You may identify one main research question and any relevant sub-questions
that are specific to the overall question. Remember to keep them relevant and
linked to your research problem.
6. Method
o Identify your approach (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, mix-method) and the
paradigm in which it is located.
o Provide an overview of your methods then proceed to address and identify key
aspects of your research using the following sub-sections (6.16.4).
6.1 Research Design
o What is your research design? (For example, Case Study, Ethnography,
Descriptive, Non-Experimental etc.)
6.2 Participant Recruitment (Sampling), Sites for Research
o Where and from whom are you going to gather your data?
o How did you select these sites or samples and why are they relevant?
o What is your role as the researcher?
6.3 Data-gathering Methods
o Are you going to use questionnaires, interviews, tests, or equipment?
Just how will these work? Make sure that it is clear just how these
instruments will help you gather the data you need. For example, if you
are using questionnaires, interviews or tests you should make at least the
general nature of the questions clear. This may also be a place to discuss
any operational definitions (e.g., if you are attempting to measure anxiety,
you need to identify how your instruments yield results that can be
construed to represent anxiety).
6.4 Data Analysis
o How will you analyse the data you have gathered? How will this analysis
help you answer the research questions?
o What process of analysis will you employ? (The key concept tables from
weeks 7 and 8 will help guide you).
o Also, you should keep such issues as validity and reliability in mind
throughout. There may be no reason for you to discuss them explicitly, but
certainly any problems in these areas will be noted by your lecturer.
7. Limitations
All research has limitations, and by making these clear you will avoid claiming that your research
will do more than it actually can. This may involve clarifying the scope of the research, if you have
not done so already, to avoid suggestions that your research findings might apply to situations in
which they really will not.
8. Ethical considerations
What are the possible ethical issues of the research, and how will you ensure that they are all
adequately covered? The protocols in Week 6 will help you identify and address these aspects.
9. Timeline
In table form present a realistic timeline for carrying out the research, allowing time at the beginning
for any necessary literature review and time at the end for writing up the research results.
10. References
This is the place to list all references you cite. It is expected that literature from the subject area is
cited and used appropriately in sections 1, 2 and 3, and that references from research texts from
EMG 505 are cited throughout section 6 to ensure your decisions are justified and discussed in
relation to research literature.

Please find the previous assignment attached as a guide, please do not copy and paste text from this assignment
Currently 2 writers are viewing this order