COMPONENTS OF PROPOSAL

*BEFORE YOU START WRITING, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR HEADINGS AND SUB-HEADINGS ARE
ORGANIZED PROPERLY

Your proposal should follow all the components below

1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Your introduction is very important, actually the most important part of your proposal.
If your introduction gets your audience's attention, they will stay with you throughout
your proposal.
An effective introduction discusses the meaningfulness of the study with presentation
of problem or issue.
It also serves as an argument advocating the need of study for your chosen object and
gives a clear insight into your intentions.

2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM (refer to the tips notes)

A sentence presenting the problem followed by a few sentences to elaborate
Explain how you came to this question/problem based on your previous interests
(research you might have been involved in, other courses you have taken, your work
experience, discussions, etc.).
The most important aspect of a research proposal is the clarity of the research problem.
For a short statement, it certainly has a lot of power.
The statement of the problem is the focal point of your research. It should state what
you will be studying, whether you will do it through experimental or non-experimental
investigation, and what the purpose of your findings will be.
An effective problem statements answer the question Why does this research need to
be conducted?

3. OBJECTIVES

The objectives that are the targets and desired outcomes of work done by you to find
answers to the problem or issue under investigation.
The purpose often starts with a single goal statement that explains what the study
intends to accomplish. A few typical statements are:

The goal of this study is to...

... overcome the difficulty with ...
... discover what ...
... understand the causes or effects of ...
... refine our current understanding of ...
 ... provide a new interpretation of ...
... understand what makes ___ successful or unsuccessful

It is then followed by a paragraph which describes the objectives that support the
goal of the research investigation.

The words goal and objective are often confused with each other. They both
describe things that a person may want to achieve or attain; however, each is
different in its scope.

Goals are more global in nature, affecting larger populations over longer time
frames. They are the big vision and are more general in wording.

Objectives are more specific and defined in nature. They are time-related to
achieve a certain task, and are the measurable outcomes of activities undertaken to
achieve goals; they are described as achieved or not achieved. Objectives should
align with a studys goals.

4. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

An explanation of the significance of a study may include the meaning of the
research work to you personally and should include how your research benefits or
impacts others in part or whole.
Discuss what people or groups of people might benefit from reading your research.
Show how this project is significant to developing a body of knowledge.
If your investigation will contribute to a portion of a larger investigation, describe
that larger investigation as well.

5. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

Limitations are influences that the researcher can not control.
Limitations are shortcomings, conditions or influences that cannot be controlled by the
researcher that place restrictions on your methodology and conclusions. Any limitations
that might influence the results should be mentioned.
Things to think about:
- your analysis
- the nature of self-reporting
- the instruments you utilized
- the sample
- time constraints
6. METHODOLOGY
A research proposal's methodology outlines the strategy for conducting an investigation
in order to answer a research question.
As a part of an overall research project proposal, the researcher will need to plan out
and share the procedures that will be used in the investigation.
PROCEDURE will include questionnaires, observation or interviews

7. DEFINITION OF TERMS
Be sure that your proposal is understandable to a general reader who does not
know much about your field of investigation.
This section gives the definition of important terms and concepts that are usually
stated in the objectives, hypothesis, and research questions. Define subject-specific
and technical terms.
If you are using words that are different in meaning in the context of your
experiment from traditionally accepted meanings, define the terms. Be sure to
refer to authoritative sources in your definitions.
Explain any operational definitions, the definitions that you have created just for
your study. An example of an operational definition is: "For the purpose of this
research, improvement is operationally defined as posttest score minus pretest
score".
The clearest way to arrange your definitions page is to arrange terms in alphabetical
order, with definitions stated in complete sentences.

8. REFERENCES
Please refer to APA style

9. GANNT CHART

10.QUESTIONNAIRE