How to Write a Research Proposal: KEY ELEMENTS

What is a research proposal?

A research proposal is a paper which aims to convince others that you have a valuable project and that you have the competence and plan to complete it. Broadly speaking, a research proposal should be between 1000 to 3000 thousand words and contain all the key elements involved in the research process and include just enough information so that the readers will be able to evaluate the proposed study and reach a conclusion that 1) your idea is important, 2) you have carefully examined the relevant literature, and 3) you have come up with the appropriate methodology to tackle the problem. Furthermore, you should work on the quality of your writing, since if your research proposal is poorly written, it might get rejected regardless of the quality of your proposed project.

Remember, all research proposals must address three questions:

1. What you want to do?
2. Why you want to do it?
3.  How you are going to do it.

You must have in mind that research proposal is not a fixed blueprint. You cannot predict the findings you will come up with beforehand. So don’t worry: if you write something now you will not need to stick to it all the way. No, it is not like that, there is no fixed formula for writing a proposal and at one point you may be forced to change things.

So, below is an overview of the different elements a research proposal must have. Bear in mind that this is just one format; there may be other formats which, for instance, include the “Abstract” or exclude “Results” and “Discussion” or have a different order of sections. The point is that most of the time various formats overlap. Furthermore, it is not intended to go into details and explain each section, as discussing each section requires a separate article and cannot be covered in just few lines (you can find the tools which help you in cooking your title, writing your literature and editing your writing atTCFEX mind-map). All these sections will be fully introduced and covered in future articles.

Anyway, here is one format:

Title

• Must contain variables and be specific and concise (12-20 word limit)
  • Handy Tools: Google Trends, Google Keyword Planner

Introduction

The main purpose of the introduction is to provide the necessary background or context for your research problem. It must contain:

• Statement of the problem
• Significance of the problem
• Research questions and hypotheses
• Definitions (optional)

Review of Literature      

It must situate your research in the context of what is already known about a topic. Being exhaustive is not important, relevance is the key. It needs to show what you are going to contribute to the already existing body of knowledge. It must show what has been done in the area by others.

• Handy Tools: Thomson Reuters’s “Essential Science Indicator”; Mendeley;Exemplar; Paper Rater;

Method

Method section is very important as it acts as your plan for addressing the research problem. It contains:

• Participants

Describes the people who are going to participate in your study

• Design

Are you doing qualitative or quantitative research? Is it exploratory, descriptive or explanatory? Why are you using this type of study? What is your rational for using this approach? What are your variables?

• Instrumentation

Describes the tests or instruments which will be used to collect data

• Procedure

Describes in detail the data-collection procedures you have used so that other researchers can conduct your research                  by reading it.

• Data analysis

Describes how you are planning to do your analysis

Results

Obviously you do not have results, but here you will summarize what your predicted results are.

Discussion

Here you will try to convince your reader of the potential impact of your proposed research, broadly evaluate your proposed experiment, and touch upon its strengths and limitations.

References

Each citation mentioned in your paper must be presented in APA format in the list of references. Remember that this is not simply a bibliography listing ‘everything written on the subject’. List of references must indicate your critical reflection in selecting the appropriate texts.

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Ultimate Garlic Advantages And Benefits

v With endless of anti-inflammatory backdrop in it, garlic is accepted to advice the physique action adjoin abounding allergies. Not just in its solid form, even raw garlic abstract is acceptable as it helps cure allergy acquired by rashes or insect bites.

v If there is one account of garlic that beats the rest, again this is it. Regular burning of garlic can abatement the accident of affection attacks and added affection accompanying diseases.

v Also, as we age, our arteries lose their adeptness to stretch. Garlic helps abate this abnormality and even protects the affection from adverse charge less oxygen radicals.

v Garlic as well prevents our claret argosy from accepting blocked slows down the development of action alleged ‘atherosclerosis, or in added words, hardening of the arteries.

v Garlic’s anti-bacterial backdrop advice amusement throat irritations. Regular assimilation of garlic can as well abate the abundance of accepted algid and added high respiratory amplitude infections. Serious ailments like asthma and even abiding bronchitis can be controlled with garlic.

v One of the actual few vegetables that in fact accord with tooth accompanying problems. Garlic has both antibacterial and analgesic backdrop and appliance of ashamed garlic abysm over the afflicted tooth can accord relief. However, one affair to be kept in apperception is that garlic can be acid to the gum.

v It has been begin that continued appellation low-grade deepening causes obesity. Also, garlic is accepted to adapt the accumulation of fat beef in our body. The abounding anti-inflammatory backdrop in garlic can advice anticipate weight gain.

v Serious derma issues like ringworm and athlete’s bottom can be advised by a actinic called ‘ajoene’ begin in garlic.

v With age our claret argosy arrangement thereby accretion the claret pressure. Allicin in garlic prevents this from accident and plays above role in abbreviation claret pressure.

v As already discussed the anti-clotting backdrop of ajoene advice anticipate the accumulation of claret clots in the body.

v Though with the advancement of  medical technology cancer is no added alarming disease, the affliction accommodating undergoes due to the ache can’t be explained in simple words. It has been begin that circadian burning of garlic can acutely lower the risks of abounding types of cancer. 

v Garlic regulates blood sugar levels by accretion the absolution of insulin. This promotes faster cure of diabetes.

v It may not be the best tasting of all the vegetables, but still, the host of bloom allowances it offers makes garlic a have to eat!

v Live and Let live your life the garlic way!

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IPHONE VERSUS IWATCH

Each time Apple affirms another Iphone, the gadget has a couple of gimmicks and amazes that put the organization's most productive item in front of the opposition, in any event for a couple of months. 

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The iphone 6 will most likely be greatly thin, quick and light. It may have an about unscratchable sapphire screen. It will probably come in two sizes. 

Pleasant. Anyhow quite a while from now, no one will recall the affirmation of the iphone 6. 

They will, then again, recollect the dispatch of the Apple I watch.

Fruit's fifth upheaval 

It's sensible to temper desires. Obviously its conceivable that Apple's iwatch will be a pooch. Heck, the organization may not in any case publish it. What's more regardless of the fact that it does, the iwatch probably won't dispatch until one year from now. 

In any case its much more sensible to expect that the iwatch will dispatch an alternate unrest. 

Mac's reality changing transformations incorporate the 1984 Macintosh, the 2001 ipod, the 2007 iphone and the 2010 ipad. 

The iwatch ought to be most tantamount to the Mac and the iphone, Apple's two most dazzling unrests. Here are a percentage of the qualities of prior Apple upsets that the presentation of the iwatch is liable to impart. 

1. They amazed us 

On Jan. 24, 1984, Steve Jobs presented the Macintosh at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts on the yard of De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif. That is the place Apple is holding its occasion on Tuesday - and where it is required to divulge the iwatch. (Both Apple prime supporters, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, went to De Anza College.) 

The year Jobs proclaimed the Macintosh, everybody knew Apple would disclose a machine. However no one recognized what it would look like or how it would function. Occupations' demo was loaded with sudden stunning exhibition on the grounds that individuals didn't expect it. 

The same was valid for the iphone. Everybody expected a telephone, yet scarcely anybody knew the essentials of what it would look like or how it would function. 

Much the same as those notorious items, the iwatch is obscure and the points of interest may astonish us. 

The gadget has been reputed for quite a long time. In spite of the fact that we know a great deal about what the I Phone 6 looks like and how it will function, we have no clue what the iwatch will look like. We don't even know the rudiments. Will it be round, square or rectangular? Will the wristband contain a battery? Will there be a huge one and a little one? No one has any thought. 

It's been seven years since Apple has amazed us with a major new stage. 

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2. They constrained the business to do things Apple's direction 

After Apple affirmed the Macintosh, no huge new working framework propelled without a graphical client interface and mouse-driven operation. In like manner, before the Iphone, more than 99% of major cell phones had physical consoles. A year after the Iphone dispatched, barely any telephones had consoles. 

The same is valid for the ipad. Microsoft and different organizations had been attempting to make tablets labor for two decades. Fruit's rendition slaughtered former endeavors and refocused the whole business on doing it Apple's route, on the grounds that at last that was the model that purchasers truly needed. 

The Mac, the Iphone and the ipad weren't the first of their kind in their classes. However the way Apple composed, fabricated and showcased those items impacted the business. 

I have the inclination its going to be the same with the Iwatch.

Vortex Cue is Apple's senior VP of Internet programming and administrations, and he said in May that new Apple items nearing not long from now are the best he's seen in 25 years. 

Jony Ive is Apple's senior VP of configuration. He was cited by an alternate Apple fashioner this week as saying that Switzerland is into a bad situation on account of the Iwatch. That infers that he accepts the Iwatch is revolutionary to the point that it will genuinely influence customary wristwatch deals. 

These remarks provide for me some certainty that the individuals most acquainted with Apple's Iwatch trust it to be totally not quite the same as and altogether better than different smart watches available.

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Effect Of Social Media Over The Politics

The incinerate issue of the time is the Politics which are about the change the face and fate of the country. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the urbanized population is an assertive population and had made their minds to take an aggressive posture and easily swayed away by the access given to not just to the state-controlled media but also alternate points of view which are far flung from clairvoyance of the representative.

                          As we know that the political presence is experienced around 50%-60% in the urbanized population who is making the presence on the social media and acquiring the information about the issues which are not in knowledge of the representative and the social media is withholding vital role for the change in the thought process of the inhabitants.

None of the representatives can afford to ignore the social media for government to be successful just as they have the budget for their traditional media on their ground activity process, it is important that they have a specific budget for the social media campaigning.

                 As per the survey, the Social Media users are hooked at 85 million are slated to hit out to 91-105 million by the end of April 2015. Basing on the scenario we can understand the impact of Social Media on the Politics. Until recently, the campaign strategies of political parties Digital media strategies are now part of the overall campaign briefs, and parties are spending an increasing amount of time and resources to social media users. There is no estimate of the amount political parties are spending on social media campaigns. But its growing use has caught the attention of the Election Commission. But, it cuts both ways. Social media, says a Congress leader, is like a "double-edged sword".

                           Using research, a range of international scholars examine the impact of social media on political communication. Well, known cases such as the Obama Presidential campaign, the Arab Spring uprisings, and UK Uncut demonstrations are presented and analyzed. Social Media has rapidly grown in importance as a forum for political activism in its different forms. Social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube provide new ways to stimulate citizen engagement in political life, where politics and political campaigns have a central role.

                 Personal communication via social media brings politicians and parties closer to their potential voters. It allows politicians to communicate faster and reach citizens in a more targeted manner and vice versa, without the intermediate role of mass media. Reactions, feedback, conversations, and debates are generated online as well as support and participation for offline events. Messages posted to personal networks are multiplied when shared, which allow new audiences to be reached.

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