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    Structure of a Research

    Proposal or Report

    INFO4990: Information Technology Research Methods


    DECO3008: Design Computing Prep Honours
    Mary Lou Maher
    March 2005

    Contents
    Proposal

    Introduction to topic
    Literature Review
    Research Methodology
    Proposed Approach
    Research Schedule
    References

    Report

    Introduction to topic
    Literature Review
    Research Methodology
    Research Results
    Contributions
    References

    Introduction to topic
    Start with a summary and significance of your title
    Motivation: what will we have when the research is done
    Significance: where are the holes in what has been done
    already
    Aims, Objectives, Claim, Hypothesis, Research Questions

    Literature Review
    Critically review the research literature in the field that
    you intend to make your contribution
    Summarise the contributions of relevant literature
    Identify relevant claims, methods, validation
    State the relevance to your research

    Research Methodology
    Relate your claim to the method and to the validation
    around one or more research methodologies:

    Prototyping
    Experimental
    Surveys
    Simulation
    Case Study
    Action Research

    Proposed Approach

    How will you collect your evidence?


    Have you started the research?
    What is your big idea?
    Are there any preliminary results?

    Research Results
    How did you collect your evidence?
    What are your results?
    Did you idea work as intended?

    Research Schedule
    Identify the major tasks to complete the research
    Tasks should be derived from the methodology
    Identify the length of time to complete the tasks and
    the order in which they will be done
    Notice any tasks that will be done at the same time
    Draw a gantt chart

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