Research Proposal Example:

1. Introduction

Your introduction should provide the background or the skeleton of the Thesis. You are
establishing your basic framework for research. You should probably have a few
subsections in the introduction.

a. You can grab the attention of the reader with your topic.

b. You should provide brief background information and explore past research.

c. Is your research qualitative or quantitative

2. Statement of the Problem

a. This section will describe the analytical approach that you intend to use.

b. You will fully describe the problem that is related to your topic of research.

3. Purpose of the Study

a. You will need to provide a well-rounded, intelligent and substantial statement on why
the research that you are doing needs to be done. ”Why is this research necessary?

b. It will disclose the hypothesis that needs to be tested and any questions surrounding it.

c. It will provide a detailed discussion of whether you will be doing quantitative or qualitative
research and the instruments of research (survey, interview, questionnaire, etc.) to be used. As
well as the sampling method.

4. Literature Review

a. This will discuss the information that is already known about the topic.

b. It will review research that is tied to the hypothesis of your research.

c. It provides a research strategy – as in what sources will you use.

5. Research Questions or Hypotheses

a. You will disclose your hypothesis here.

b. You will further disclose any research questions that surround your hypothesis.

c. You will address the possible testable theories that will support your hypothesis.

6. Research Objectives

In general, research objectives describe what we expect to achieve by a project. Research

objectives are usually expressed in lay terms and are directed as much to the client as to the
researcher. Research objectives may be linked with a hypothesis or used as a statement of
purpose in a study that does not have a hypothesis. Even if the nature of the research has not
been clear to the layperson from the hypotheses, s/he should be able to understand the
research from the objectives.

7. Theory, Methods and Procedures

a. This section will tell exactly which methods you will use in order to prove your
hypothesis.
b. Explain the theory behind the research.
c. The used model will be introduced in detail.

d. It discusses the key variables that you will test and/or control in order to prove your
hypothesis.

8. Expected result

This section should give a good indication of what you expect to get out of the research. It
should join the data analysis and possible outcomes to the theory and questions that you have
raised. It will be a good place to summarize the significance of the work. It is often useful
from the very beginning of formulating your work to write one page for this section to focus
your reasoning as you build the rest of the proposal.

9. Limitations/Problems

This section will discuss any limitations or problems that may arise in your research.

10. Time plan

11. References

Do not forget that every academic sound proposal has references