Research Proposal: Academic Writing Guide for Graduate Students
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A quick and easy guide to writing a research proposal
Includes a Free example research proposal template for you to download.
This short guide will give you the tools you need write a research proposal, no matter what your field of study is. If you're doing your master's or doctoral thesis, you need to present a good, detailed proposal before your study is approved. Often, this can be confusing, and it's hard to find simple, clear instructions on what should go into your proposal.
In this short guide, you'll learn how to choose a research design and theoretical framework, write your methodology and literature review, and present your research plan. You'll also find a useful template which you can rework to easily complete your research proposal.
Whether you're writing an essay or a master's or doctoral thesis, this guide will be useful for making sure that you start your journey of academic writing on the right foot. You'll be able to master this skill in just over 30 minutes. The guide is written by Dr. Grant Andrews, who has been teaching academic writing for years, and who knows the common pitfalls that students experience in academic writing.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Impressive. Clear and concise. Enables one to understand research and the work that lays ahead.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book is very clear, concise and to the point, guides students very effectively indeed.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very helpful! Love the way it is set out. Thank you.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The writing is sincere, straight forward and motivating for me to start writing my thesis. Thanks a bunch
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This write a research guide is straightforward, detailed and easy to follow. I also appreciate it was all given for free. I'm grateful to Grant Andrews and the Coaches at writeyourthesis.com. you are great people helping researchers learn more in the academics.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The template was very helpful along with the information on what should be in each section and a guide for how long each section should be however I would suggest a serif-font for the body text - Times-Roman, for example, is the standard at many universities and is easier for reading long texts. I also enjoyed the fact that it was short & concise. Not easy to reference though while writing so organising more content under sub- headers and bullet points would have helped with that maybe. Also very American-centric, so does not address variation in British/Australian/Canadian/New Zealand University English standards.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5short and simple. easy to understand. really helpful to understand while in a rush of writing a research proposal
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very well written and explained. Easy to follow yet full of knowledge! Truly well done.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A short but very comprehensive description of what needs to be done.
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Research Proposal - Grant Andrews
Research Proposal: Academic Writing Guide for Graduate Students
Essay and Thesis Writing Series
Grant Andrews
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Copyright © 2017 by Grant Andrews
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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Purpose of a Proposal
Chapter 3: Motivation for Your Research
Chapter 4: Methodology
Chapter 5: Literature Review
Chapter 6: Research Plan and Bibliography
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We hope this short guide can help you to make a success of your academic work!
Chapter 1: Introduction
There are a lot of elements you need to get right in