1. First of all you should find out as much about your topic of research as you can.

2. The second step would be to Make an outline for your research proposal.

3. The outline would first of all include an introduction to your proposal.
4. The introduction should include a literature review. The literature review should focus on the data
that is already available, for example the researches that have already been carried out and
whatever you have read about your topic.
5. After the introduction you need give a background about why you need to carry out a research.
This can also appear under the heading of rationale. 
6. Under the head or title of introduction, you should also state your research objectives.
7. You should give details of your research project then.
8. Don't forget to include the scope of your research, which will mean the area in which you are
conducting your research.
9. After that give details about the research methodology that your going to use. That is, explaining
how you are going to conduct your research. This will include the kind of data you are going to use,
which can be secondary or primary. You can give your sources of secondary data and your methods
of collecting primary data.Primary data methods can be surveys, questionnaires, observations etc.
10. The next step is to give details of your data analysis methods.
11. At the end, you should include the scope and time line for the research
12. You should also include the cost! I.e. the amount the research study is going to require.