(Taken from http://tradesensation.com/)
"RIGHT PROPOSAL GETS YOU HITCHED WITH!!..WRONG PROPOSAL GETS YOU REJECTED"...rc
It’s the first step anyone takes
or faces when entering the universe of research. I have chosen Two words in my
first sentence which are ‘takes’ and ‘faces’, one who has willingly chosen the
path of research, whom has done some background work, knows the expectations, while the latter are those who took the plunge, its sort of an acid test. The third category will be
the ones whom have done their graduate final projects diligently, they will
also be in the former definition. Irrelevant which field research is being
done, science or non-science, the rituals and oblations are the same.
Getting into the proposal, what
are the main sections’ which needs to be written?:
i.
Introduction/Overview/Background
ii.
Problem Statement
iii.
Objectives
iv.
Scope
v.
Methodology
If you have noticed, buffet
protocols are never adhered, majority rush in, start piling up and building
mountains on their plate. When congregated back on their table, you will see
another mini-buffet arranged in the table itself, and rest is history. In the
end food is wasted, missed some small crucial items, stuffed with their
favourite food and rest becomes waste. WHY I chose this example, because the
same happens in early stage of research and proposal writing. Lucky ones with a
good articulate supervisor will be guided well, but in research it is believed the
boat must be sailed alone, thus another common buffet debacle waiting to happen.
HOW do we start the Introduction
section? Let’s pick a common layman discussion topic for this purpose. Hmmm lets write a research proposal on a ‘A Study
On Choosing An Appropriate Hobby For Either A Blue Or White Collar Working
Class Person’. The topic is neither biased to technical nor arts, it’s a daily common
social interactive scene in a human’s ecosystem. Getting now to writing, how
are we going to start this?, lets zoom into the topic, WHATS the most general
and common substance. We can either start with ‘HOBBY’ or ‘WORKING CLASS’, if
its hobby than, the first paragraph should start describing about hobbies. Hobbies
ranging from kids to adults, past times to serious ones and there some which
has become a business. THIS is what I call roaming around from an aerial
perspective, the first phase of narrative should just be on the superficial depth
of hobby. If we are going to start with “WORKING CLASS’, than a general
description of working class and its definition. Once this is done, segregation
and explanation between both the white and blue collar will come in.
My advice would be, start with
the ‘HOBBY’ and later explain about the ‘WORKING CLASS’, you guys can ask now
WHY such?. Hmmmm…it takes time you see to put in the right words to explain so
it will be easier to comprehend and digest. It goes like this, a sales man has
to explain all his products than lets the customer choose accordingly within
their specified constraints. So in this case we have to explain ‘HOBBY’, than
get into ‘WORKING CLASS’, and the latter also has the embedded tip in
extracting the “PROBLEM STATEMENT”. In this aspect, the flow of narrative is
smooth……to be continued (tight schedule...will be back)
